When pieces of wood are thrown onto a fire they burn up almost entirely, but a ream of paper can be retrieved from a fire after it has burned down with the central sheets virtually intact and only charred edges. What protects the paper from being burned throughout?rnI spend most of my days in the lab burning things so am qualified to answer this question.rnAlmost everyone who has got themselves a wood stove in the hope of saving some money and the planet decides it would be a really great idea to use it to turn all the waste paper that puzzlingly appears from nowhere into heat.
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