Measuring Wood Burning

[bossfam]

We are doing the "Which Kind of Wood Burns Slower" science fair project. How would we go about measuring which burned slowest? Any advice on how we would collect that data?

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[audreyln]

Hello,

This sounds like a fun project! The "Which Kind of Wood Burns Slower?" project idea is just an idea - it doesn't have a full procedure provided. You will need to design your own experiment to test your hypothesis.

To measure how slow different woods burn you could go about it a few different ways. You could use a stopwatch to time how long it takes for equal sized samples of different types of wood to completely burn. Or you could use a scale to weigh samples before and after a set amount of time. With either approach you'll want to think about variables that need to be controlled (size of the samples, type of ignition).

Hope this helps!

Audrey