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[dsp1234]

I could rip a piece of paper with my bare hands. Give me 300 million pieces of paper sandwiched together and I couldn't.

[venomsnake → dsp1234]

But they burn quite good.

[danudey → venomsnake]

Actually stacks, sheets, or bindings of paper are extremely difficult to burn compared to individual sheets.

[woodman → danudey]

Stacks burn, but not as energetically as a single sheet with a high surface area to volume ratio. The stack might just smolder for 229 years, because the flame resistant treatment turned out to only be flame retardant. Something something Alien and Sedition Acts... this metaphor cannot be tortured any further.