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ELI5: theoretically, if you put wood in a vacuum and heat it up to a high enough degree, could you melt it?
gpt
> theoretically, if you put wood in a vacuum and heat it up to a high enough degree, could you melt it?

No.

If you put wood under a vacuum you would have water and other volatile compounds start to boil away, even before you heated it. Once you heated it and pumped away the gasses you would be left with something very much like charcoal. Mainly composed of carbon you could keep heating it but carbon sublimates in a vacuum so it would never reach a liquid state. It would go straight from a solid to a gas.