eli5 What is the energy losses from burning something?

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What is the terms for it? We did a lab where we burned food objects, it asked if there were any energy losses in the experiment. I searched google but couldn’t find anything I understood, can someone please help me understand? We used an open flame to burn foods such as nuts, beans, marshmallows..

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Did you use the flame to heat up a certain volume of water to determine how many calories it was? The energy loss would be not all the energy went into heating up the water so you can’t precisely tell how many calories are in the thing you burned.

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