And would it be possible to melt wood into a puddle in the right conditions?
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The problem with trying to melt wood is that you have to heat it up a lot. When you heat wood that much, it goes through a chemical reaction (burning) long before it melts and stops being wood in the process.
The other problem is that unlike typical metals, wood is composed of a mix of very different materials. It has water, organic molecules, inorganic molecules, etc in it, totaling hundreds of types of chemical. Mixed materials like that don’t have the same kind of clean melting/boiling point that pure materials do.
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