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= Which Firewood is Best? =

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Experimental Design
===I will be seeing which fire wood burns best ill will be doing this by burning wood at home using pine ceder cherry and spruce wood and ill use a fire starter to help them burn i will be recording the temperature using a lab quest go temp and writing down the information on my spread sheet that i printed out.===

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I learned the common trees found and lumbered in New Hampshire and that some tress absorb more water and that some trees have longer burn lenght then others.

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i learned that hardwood burn longer and has hotter cols but is not as loud even if soft wood burn quicker has more smoke and crackles more so it depend on what you like but soft wood also has a higher burning temperature

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====I learned the common trees found and lumbered in New Hampshire and that some tress absorb more water and that some trees have longer burn length then others. ====

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i learned that hardwood burn longer and has hotter cols but is not as loud even if soft wood burn quicker has more smoke and crackles more so it depend on what you like but soft wood also has a higher burning temperature

2)//Firewood Facts//. Web Signs 4 u, 1998. Web. 15 Jan. 2012. .
===3) Middleton, Dougless. Hardwood vs softwood. Douglas Middleton, Web. 20 Jan. 2012. . ===

===4)"Wood and Combustion Heat Values." www.engineeringtoolbox.com. Google, Web. 18 Jan. 2012. . ===

Conclusion
The original purpose of this experiment was to find out if pine, cherry oak or spruce firewood burn longest and hottest. I did this by burning each type of wood for seven minutes three times each. The results of this experiment show that oak burn the best out of all wood types with the average temperature of 240.4(F) followed by spruce 198.7(F) cherry168.9 (F) and lastly pine 164.7(F)

Discussion
I hypothesize that pine, cherry, oak, then spruce is the order for the best time burned and highest temperature reached**.** My results did support my hypothesis. some patterns and trends that my data show are that over the firs six minutes the temperature rises and then drops. I think my test went smoothly. Everything worked and the data came out clear I was also able to gather all me materials to do the experiment. If I could improve my experiment, Id have a longer trial time to increase the number of data points. An intrusting future study might test how long each type of wood can burn until the flame is gone.

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