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  • Can wood melt.
  • JonBoy
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    Is it possible to make wood melt? Say if you removed all oxygen and exposed to a high enough heat.

    mucker
    Full Member

    No, but have a look at charcoal making and torrified wood.

    cynic-al
    Free Member

    You can steam it and bend it.

    Greybeard
    Free Member

    No. Wood is mainly cellulose, which is non-thermoplastic.

    dan1980
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    Possibly, and it depends on how you define melt…

    If you were to simply define melt as getting from a solid to liquid state then ff you were to heat it above 3780 Kelvin in a vacuum, really rather fast, you’d melt the carbon making up the cellulose. How you’d do this experimentally is anyone’s guess.

    If you define melting (correctly) as the reversible process of going from a solid to a liquid, then no, wood doesn’t melt.

    cheekyboy
    Free Member

    Possibly, and it depends on how you define melt…

    OK ???

    If you define melting (correctly) as the reversible process of going from a solid to a liquid, then no, wood doesn’t melt.

    Ahhhh…….I see !!

    samuri
    Free Member

    If you squeezed the sap out you could melt that.

    aleonardwilliams
    Free Member

    magaret thatcher, naked on a cold day should do it

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