Similar results with coal. The smoke obtained from super-heated coal in a closed atmosphere produces ammonia, and ammonium sulphate and ammonium nitrate, and many other "by-products", and the solids which remain are called coke, which is a fuel for smokeless fires, and for ovens used for melting iron to be combined with steel in the steel-making process. Been there, done that.
Larry Johnson >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/05/04 07:45AM >>> and if you heat wood and lack oxygen you get charcoal. another lazy answer Allan Fish wrote: > on 2/5/04 8:54 AM, Mark Delaney at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Actually, the process is more complex than any of us have answered. > > <SNIP> > > ...just too mcuh stuff going on to list all of it. > > > That's why I went with the simple answer - "NOPE" (it doesn't melt) > > Gettin' lazy in the old age. > > Sitting here watching more beautiful snow come down. :-( > > a. > -- > Allan Fish > Greenwood, IN > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
