Why doesn't wood melt?

Answer 1

Wood Does Not Melt.

To melt something would imply that it can be taken between a liquid and solid state by heating and cooling. Wood, like other plant material, is very complex and takes its form from its cellular structure. In its natural state, wood is roughly 1/4 to 2/3 water by weight, so it consists of large amounts of liquid at room temperature to begin with. Wood is the source of
many liquid products, such as latex rubber, turpentine, and maple syrup, to name a very few. It is possible to burn wood and condense the smoke into a liquid (which is actually how "liquid smoke" food seasoning is made), but the physical structure of the wood is destroyed in the process and the
resulting material cannot be reconstituted back into the original source.

Answer 2

if you heated wood to a high enough temperature in the absence of oxygen, im sure it would melt. unfortunately, the wood gets so hot, that it just catches fire (combustion is a chemical change while melting is physical) however, without oxygen, at high enough temperature, it would probably melt

Answer 3

Wood is composed of complex carbohydrates, Compounds of hydrogen, carbon, & oxygen, which will burn if heated in air, and decompose, (chemically change into other forms), before melting, if heated in the absence of oxygen.

Answer 4

It does