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प्रश्न
Although wood has a very high calorific value, we still discourage its use as a fuel. Explain.
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उत्तर
Burning of wood has several disadvantages.
These are as follows:
- Burning of wood produces a lot of smoke, which causes respiratory diseases.
- The cutting down of trees to obtain wood as fuel leads to deforestation, which is very harmful to the environment.
- Trees provide us many useful substances. To obtain fuel wood, when trees are cut down, then all useful substances that can be obtained from trees are lost.
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