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What best explains why a wood burning fire place represents an open system

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Smoke and hot gases leave the system through the chimney, and this draws new air into the system from surrounding parts of the galaxy that are outside the system.

So a fireplace that's turned on is open at both the input and the output.

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Because it is open to more wood being burned and it is giving smoke out

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