Why do some things melt and others burn to a crisp

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Pretty much the title. For example, When being burned wood burns to charcoal but things like metal melt and turn into a liquid?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Going to pile on here: couldn’t you just remove all the oxygen instead of using a vacuum and prevent burn before melt that way?

Also, I would guess wood would melt in a way similar to sugar (sucrose), since cellulose is just a sugar?

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