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Camphor burns...

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Camphor burns with a flame. Charcoal does not. Why?

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Only those solid and liquid substances which vaporise on heating burn with a flame. Charcoal does not release any gases of vaporisation to burn, it simply glows just. Camphor releases Hydrocarbon gases that will burn and produce flame.

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