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The "chemistry" of wood burning only implies that CO2 and water will be produced. These are not particularly harmful compared to smoke.
by InclinedPlane 13y ago
The "chemistry" of wood burning only implies that CO2 and water will be produced. These are not particularly harmful compared to smoke.
- maxerickson 13y agoPlants are well known to contain elements other than carbon and hydrogen. So sure, if you stick to cartoon chemistry you just have those, if you try to actually characterize the reaction, not so much.
- InclinedPlane 13y agoThe hazardous chemical byproducts of incomplete wood combustion are primarily CHO compounds. With sufficient combustion wood burning can produce very little to none of those compounds. Not that such conditions are typical of wood burning, but the idea that burning wood must produce carcinogenic and hazardous products due to the fundamental chemistry involved is simply erroneous.
- lingben 13y agoRespectfully, you are simply wrong. http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/iyh-vsv/environ/wood-bois-eng.php http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/iyh-vsv/environ/wood-bois-eng.p...
- InclinedPlane 13y agoI would ask you to look at that list again and re-evaluate whether those products are inevitably the consequence of wood burning in every situation due to the fundamental chemistry involved or whether instead they are due primarily to the conditions involved in that burning and will be produced in different amounts under different conditions.