It released almost a ton of CO2.

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    1 year ago

    The atoms themselves aren’t changing, you’d have to do fusion or fission for that. It’s the molecules that are changing.

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      I meant “swapping” a hydrogen atom for an oxygen atom within a molecule as part of the chemical reaction of combustion.
      I didn’t explain it well, tho