eli5: What exactly happens when you burn food (I.e Toast)?

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eli5: What exactly happens when you burn food (I.e Toast)?

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Everything organic on our planet is based on carbon. Deep down everything is carbon. When you heat up toast you make a lot of molecules disconnect from carbon and fly away, because big heat does that to many things. What remains is pure carbon, which isn’t that much bothered by heat.

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