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Grade 128 grade science

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

Profile image of Pawan Prajapati
5 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Harshit Singh
5 Years 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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