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Please help me! I do not know how I could possibly answer this question! It makes no sense! When a piece of paper or wood is burned, you are left with ashes that seem to weigh less than the paper or wood before it was burned. Yet when a substance is burned, it is oxidized and therefore must weigh more than it did before it was burned. Explain what happened to the “missing” weight.

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