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Falls off? Plants are already flammable…

It’s already above 400, so most plants no longer have protein or minerals?




> Falls off? Plants are already flammable…

Things which are flammable can get a more (or less) flammable depending on composition (or environment).

For instance furniture is flammable, but if you remove the flame retardants they become a lot more flammable, either the threshold for inflaming is lower, or they burn up a lot faster and / or hotter.

> It’s already above 400, so most plants no longer have protein or minerals?

"Falls off" means they decrease not that they disappear, and the lowering nutritiousness of foodstuff is regularly spotlighted.


> Plants are already flammable…

Admittedly not the most readable construct, but the ">" in the OP's sentence is saying that the plants become more flammable. To the OP, I had not heard that before, would be interested to see those peer reviewed papers if you can share.

> It’s already above 400, so most plants no longer have protein or minerals?

OP said it falls off, not that it goes away completely.




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