Question

It is a statement that atoms neither be created nor be destroyed. The wood of plants contains cells when the plant is alive. Now we make furnitures from that wood e.g. table, it contains atoms as it is a matter. When the plant's wood was alive it contained cells then how the dead cells get converted into atoms when we make furniture form that wood. Please explain.

Answer 1

Actually wood is composed of cellulose. And the living cell in plants also contains cellulose. Thus cellulose is nothing but a carbohydrate which is composed of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms. So atoms are present even when the cell is dead. It is not that the dead cell are converted to cellulose. They consist of atoms.

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