Jason James <at@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Actually, if you remember an experiment in high-school science, you get
an
> empty coffee tin with removable lid. Place some dead wood in it,
I don't see how oz etc. could fit in a coffee tin...
> .replace
> lid, punch a couple of holes in the lid. Heat tin in a camp-fire,..then
> place a lighted match near the holes in lid and voila! A flame starts
> burning. When it stops, remove tin, open lid and there it is,.. coal.
> Lesson: it's the gas given off by heated wood that burns, not the wood
> itself.
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