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# Ok, here's what I think you need to know
Everything organic on this planet is made from a mixture of Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen. K?

When something burns, it releases water (mixture of Hydrogen and Oxygen) and Carbon Dioxide.

However if combustion is inefficient (as in the case of burning toast) there will be a residue of carbon left on the surface of whatever is burning since not enough oxygen combines with the carbon to produce CO2.

Carbon is black. There you go.
(I helped save b3ta! wastedindustry yes indeed sir, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:42, archived)
# except when it is diamonds

(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:46, archived)
# So
If you put diamonds in a toatser, the won't be black despite containing carbon!
That is top science ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:47, archived)
# Yes, and interestingly
the same applies to dingos, destitutes and dentists, but not dace.
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:50, archived)
# Damn
and I thought there was a pattern emerging.
(I helped save b3ta! Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:56, archived)
# there's always an exception to the rule,
which proves the rule
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:59, archived)
# Could you patronise us a bit more please?
Subtleties are so lost on B3tards :)
(I helped save b3ta! Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:46, archived)
# Hah sorry ;)
Judging by the question I thought I'd better explain carefully.
And I replied to the wrong person too :p
(I helped save b3ta! wastedindustry yes indeed sir, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:53, archived)
# what about hydrocarbons
no oxygen in those
(I helped save b3ta! plentyofants more ghee, vicar?, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:49, archived)
# No
but the carbon oxidises using the oxygen in the air.

Besides, hydrocarbons aren't organic.
(I helped save b3ta! wastedindustry yes indeed sir, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:52, archived)
# ?
(second part, not the first; there's plenty of oxygen in the air)

alkanes aren't organic? benzene isn't organic?
news to me
[edit: also, some compunds, such as what you get when you completely halogenate a hydrocarbon, don't even have hydrogen in either]
(I helped save b3ta! plentyofants more ghee, vicar?, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:57, archived)
# hydrocarbons aren't...
oh, nevermind, let's get back to MAGNETS!
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 16:02, archived)