Assuming no oxygen is around could we melt wood?
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Feels like we have the same question asked here as we dod a few hours ago, that one was why we can’t melt diamonds like glass.
For the same reason, wood and other plants are fiber based, those fibers break down to complex carbon chains. Carbon as explained earlier, at our atmospheric pressures, doesn’t have a liquid phase. There’s solid, and gas, add energy to carbon and it gets hot then burns. The same is said for wood.
Take plants and compress for millions of years and you end up with fossilized hydrocarbons, aka crude oil. The closest we’d be able to find liquid wood on this planet.
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