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Burn

A substance burns if it is heated up enough to undergo a chemical reaction with oxygen.

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Category: Thermochemistry
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To expose a printing plate to light. See double burn, gamma, film, illustration.

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The partial or complete destruction of skin caused by some form of energy, usually thermal energy.

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A device that provides a flame for heating or burning things in laboratory experiments and it has a metal tube.

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A substance burns if it is heated up enough to undergo a chemical reaction with oxygen.

Celsius

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Swedish scientist who in 1742 created the Celsius scale for measuring temperature.He died in 1744.

combustion

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A chemical reaction in which a substance combines rapidly with oxygen, producing heat and, usually light.

geothermal

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Made hot by the heat that is contained in rocks below the Earth's surface. The water in hot springs is geothermal.

distillation

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A way of separating one liquid from a mixture of liquids. The mixture is boiled so that the liquid evaporates as a gas.

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