Does gold really burn?

I wanted to directly observe whether pure or nearly pure delta 9 thc burns or not. It had been suggested to me that it simply boils into a vapor and was entrained in the smoke when lighting up with a Bic lighter. I had seen combustion of course with terpene heavy extract. Terpenes are known to be highly flamable as far as I understand, and I knew that combustion was taking place with a hydrocarbon owing to the soot produced during tests. THC is not a hydrocarbon and frankly I assumed it was not flamable on its own. Then I ran into a Pubchem reference on the substance and under "flamability" it was listed as "probably". It seems the manufacturers of Dronabil (tradename in Pubchem used for delta 9 thc) didn't want to burn their shit up testing! The complete answer from this experiment seems to be, yes".

I am absolutely positive that vaporization does indeed occur when lighting up, however, I am now equally certain that delta 9 thc also combusts when a Bic lighter is held to it and when there is enough oxygen otherwise (like on a stainless steel catalyst). I of course base this on observed data in the video. I did vape some of the extract prior to the experiment. This is an extremely potent sample of delta 9 thc.

Another thing to find out would be if more THC is delivered by vaping THCA or THC. My guess is that some of the THCA gets burnt up before even being able decarb and vape, being an extra step is involved. The THCA is inside the trichs so how's it gonna vape as well as dispersed extract? The whole trich would probably just burn up.