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What kind of chemical reaction occurs when fossil fuels and biomass are burned? What is produced in addition to energy?

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Combustion is familiar to all of us, but many do not realize that it is essentially a chemical reaction. In the process of combustion, two ingredients (biomass and oxygen) are combined in a high temperature environment to form carbon dioxide, water vapor, and heat

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Combustion of Fossil Fuels. Combustion is a reaction with oxygen. In the case of the combustion of fossil fuels, the combustion reaction is what we think of as a burning process. In the combustion reaction, the species reacting with the oxgyen is oxidized (because oxygen is very electronegative).

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