One lights a match stick. Fire. One blows it off. None. Scientifically, what happens ?

Answer 1

Striking the match: friction heats an extremely flammable phosphorous compound. With safety matches the compound is separated into two locations. Part of it is on the match tip and the other part is on the strike strip. They get mixed when the match is struck. With self-striking matches both compounds are mixed on the match tip.

Flame initiation: There is a second compound on the match tip that is also very flammable to sustain the flame for the first few seconds of ignition. It burns hot enough to light the wood or paper the match is made from. The very flammable compound is nearly impossible to extinguish because it contains it's own oxidizer and is extremely flammable. There is not much on the match so it burns up within about 1 second.

Sustained Flame: the match shaft starts to burn. In that case oxygen to sustain burning is supplied by air. The wood or paper must be hot enough to vaporize. It is the vapors that burn. The vapors must reach a critical temperature to ignite. In the case of paper that is Fahrenheit 451, which by the way is the origin of the name of the famous book by that name. The temperature at which books (paper) burn.

Blowing it out: blowing on the match cools it down below 451F enough that ignition stops and the match stops vaporizing. The flame goes out and it cools down.

Answer 2

Fire needs three things to survive. Heat, Fuel and Oxygen. Oxygen is in the air, the fuel is the wood of the match, the heat is maintained by the flame.

When you light the match, fuel and oxygen remain the same, but the heat source is the friction between the match and whatever you strike the match on.

When you blow out the match you take away the heat.

Answer 3

if your blow out a match scientifically you've smothered the fire. it has no way of fueling itself with oxygen. for example fire men put out forest fires by lighting other fires to suck the oxygen away from the fires. it creates a vacuum and the fires are extinguished, by blowing at the flame you've smothered it and deprived the fuel from its oxygen supply therefore extinguishing it.

Answer 4

The fire is its own source of ignition, By blowing, you push the hot gasses away from their fuel, putting out the flame.

Answer 5

When you blow on the flame it cools the fame below the ignition temperature so it goes out.The smoke that you see is volatile vapors and gases that are now to cold to burn.

Answer 6

You'll burn your lips.. why do you want to go blowing lit matches?

Answer 7

Here's an advice, stop asking questions or asking something that's comprehesible.

Answer 8

i dont no but dont try ok