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Give reasons: Paper by itself catches fire easily whereas a piece of paper wrapped around an aluminium pipe does not.

 Give reasons:
Paper by itself catches fire easily whereas a piece of paper wrapped around an aluminium pipe does not.

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Harshit Singh
askIITians Faculty 5964 Points
one year ago
Dear Student

The ignition temperature of paper is less, so it catches fire easily. It does not catch fire when wrapped around aluminium pipe because aluminium absorbs the heat, so paper does not attain its ignition temperature.

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