2007-03-27 12:08:47 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Well, first. Are you weighing the ashes or just the paper that didn't burn?
There could be a number of different situations!
Some of the paper would be totally burned and exhausted in the air as carbon ans probably other elements. Also, if it was not contained, then you would have ashes that actually flew away with the upward current of heat.
As they say "Matter can be neither created nor destroyed" only converted from one form to another!
2007-03-27 12:17:21 · answer #1 · answered by dopey042276 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paper contains carbon, which when burning combines with oxygen to form CO or CO2. And that releases into the air as the smoke you see when it's burning. Thats the lost mass.
2007-03-27 19:12:16 · answer #2 · answered by The Machine 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The burning of paper will produce gases (CO2 and water vapor, mainly) plus very fine solid particles (mostly carbon) that are hot and therefore drift away. The gases and the particles are where the 2g went
2007-03-27 19:12:47 · answer #3 · answered by gp4rts 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The remaining 2g combined with oxygen to form CO2, H2O, and other compounds which - quite literally - went up in smoke. Some would remain mixed in the atmosphere, while tiny particles (i.e. soot) would eventually settle into the environment.
2007-03-27 19:13:26 · answer #4 · answered by dukefenton 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Up in smoke! The paper is turned into carbon and is released and sent upwards with the heated air from the flame. Once it cools it will settle back down or perhaps stick to vertical surfaces as ''soot''.
2007-03-27 19:13:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two grams of mass escaped into the air as gases and particles from the burning.
2007-03-27 19:11:18 · answer #6 · answered by ecolink 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Assuming that all the solids stayed in one place and did not fly off, 2g of mass was water and it evaporated.
2007-03-27 19:12:46 · answer #7 · answered by josefa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Up in smoke.
The oxygen bonds with the carbon were broken, and the mass was converted to heat energy, light, oxygen, and smoke particles.
2007-03-27 19:12:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Into the air in the form of smoke
2007-03-27 19:16:28 · answer #9 · answered by malasunas 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I only have one thing to say... E=mc^2
The mass was turned into energy.
Either that or ashes just don't weigh as much as paper.
2007-03-27 19:18:01 · answer #10 · answered by camm300 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋