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1307625 No.1307625 [Reply] [Original]

Can you melt paper?

>> No.1307631

No.

>> No.1307638

Not this shit again

>> No.1307641

Put it in water.
Wait.
You now have pater(also known as melted paper).
Paper is the only thing that can melt in water without extra heat.

>> No.1307651

>>1307641

God-fucking-dammit. He's right.

>> No.1307654

>>1307641
Nigga, you just went full retard

>> No.1307667

>>1307641
Your fucking retarded. If you leave most anything in water long enough it will "melt" in the water.

>> No.1307674

>>1307667
No.

>> No.1307680

>>1307667
Enjoy your Gulf of Mexico.

>> No.1307682

oh fuck i just realized i clicked sci instead of tv. that explains why everything is science and not tv

>> No.1307685

>>1307667
Oil, for example

>> No.1307689

>>1307667
>>Your fucking retarded
>>Your fucking
>>Your
Die in a fire.

>> No.1307691

>>1307667
>>1307641
That's it. I'm done /sci/. It's been fun, though.

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>>1307682
>everything is science and not tv
>everything is science
>science

>> No.1307699

>>1307682
LOL.

Also paper sets on fire when you heat it because it reacts with the oxygen when heat is applied, I think you could melt paper if you made it very hot in a vacuum, or just a chamber of inert gas?

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>>1307682

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Paper doesn't melt and never can; it wouldn't be usable paper anymore long long before you managed to get a piece of it to change into another phase of matter. The temperatures in flames cause proteins in the fibers denature (imagine an ordered string [like a specific set of knots] unraveling into a random unintelligible pile, for every protein, as simply as I can put that) and the result is a bunch of disassembled proteins with any water/other ECM fluids having evaporated. Since there are a shit ton of carbons in protein and, you know, coal is mostly carbon.. well there's one cool story bro link, you're looking at a pile of carbon when you have some burnt paper, mixed with some other residual elements/compounds that didn't get blown away or removed.

Okay, now here's the kick... We can see that paper is mostly carbon after combustion right? Guess what, carbon can not EVER melt, as long as it is under our default atmospheric conditions. That doesn't make it indestructible via heat, though, although it takes a damn lot of heat to affect it. Because its triple point at atmospheric pressure prohibits it, carbon won't melt but simply sublimate (evaporate directly into a gas) at around 3900 kelvin, or close to 6600 degrees F. That's higher than the melting points of all known metals.

So in a sense, paper is more elite than the hardest of metal in terms of destructability, however it long was no longer able to be called paper by the time you got the carbon in it to enter a different phase of matter.