A chemistry student sitting around a campfire observes that the large pieces of wood burn slowly, but a mixture of small scraps of wood and sawdust added to the flame combusts explosively. The correct explanation for the difference in the combustion between these two forms of wood is that, compared with the wood scraps and sawdust, the large pieces of wood

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A chemistry student sitting around a campfire observes that the large pieces of wood burn slowly, but a mixture of small scraps of wood and sawdust added to the flame combusts explosively. The correct explanation for the difference in the combustion between these two forms of wood is that, compared with the wood scraps and sawdust, the large pieces of wood