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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It’s the difference between adding heat and reacting to oxygen, and just adding heat. If the thing you’re heating up changes to something else with oxygen+heat then it burns, turning into some other combination of things (ashes and carbon dioxide)

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