did fire belong to solid, liquid or gas?

Question

did fire belong to solid, liquid or gas?

Answer 1

It would be a solid.
Fire is just rapid oxidation of organic or sometimes inorganic materials, all it is is just solid particles that are hot enough to give off visible light and as for the people who said it is plasma, then if it was it would be strongly attracted or repelled by any magnetic field and also any matal object near the flame would have massive amounts of electricty flowing through them, e.g, IT IS NOT PLASMA

Answer 2

Good trick question but fire is just a reaction. Their are a few things that could act as the catalist to the reaction of fire, like friction, ignition of a gas. A forced fire.,e.i., a bomb. An explosion; the act of the molecules speeding up rapidly and seperating thus causing the explosion. And their are many other ways to create fire. A controlled flame; in order for a welder to weld two peices of medal together he/she has to adjust the gas/oxygen ratio and then use an 'ignitor' too activate the flame. After that process, the welder has to, yet agan, adjust the flame by using the nobes on the side of the torch. Their are many different variations of fire and the way one could start it and or explode it. Fire is not a solid, liquid or gas, it is a reaction to a gas and or cuncoction of the three in any order or way.

Answer 3

If you are talking about the anceint elements of Fire Water Earth Wind. Then no it did not Since the concept of Solid liquid and gas had not occured to them at that time.

Fire as in Flames and all. Then it can contain all five states.

If you mean the process then it does not have a state.

Answer 4

FIRE belongs 2 a gas!!!
its not a solid
or a liquid.
when is the last time that u have seen liquid fire.
or fire being solid, that is so stupid!!!

Answer 5

There four known states

Solid - Metal, Stone
Liquid - Water
Gas (vapor) - Steam
Plasma - Fire

Answer 6

Fire is a chemical reaction. Just think that solids can burn (wood), liquids can burn (gasoline) and gases can burn (hydrogen/oxygen). Heat is the catalyst that causes the reaction between the molecules. Smothering a fire is simply a matter of removing one of the reacting chemicals (most commonly the oxygen in the air) and/or by cooling the process (most commonly using water). However, certain componds will react with the oxygen found in water. Also, some liquids will simply float on top of any water used to spray on them (think oils).

Answer 7

If your definition of fire is- A rapid, persistent chemical reaction that releases heat and light, esp. the exothermic combination of a combustible substance with oxygen- then the answer is none of the options. Fire is a chemical reaction realeasing heat and light, so it is not, was not, and will not be a substance. The combustible substance(s) was any (or any one; which ever you prefer in acceptability in formal writing) or of a solid, liquid or gas.

Answer 8

Fire is a process.

Flame is plasma.

WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]

"plasma
... 3: (physical chemistry) a fourth state of matter distinct from
solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion
reactors; a gas becomes a plasma when it is heated until
the atoms lose all their electrons, leaving a highly
electrified collection of nuclei and free electrons;
'particles in space exist in the form of a plasma'"

Answer 9

None. It's the reaction from a solid, liquid, or gas, to a gas.

Answer 10

Fire is none of the above. It is a REACTION of a solid into liquid,gas, and new solid.

Answer 11

I was taught that "fire" involves most all the states of matter. "Involves" being the operative word! "Fire", in and of itself, is actually none of those things in the "state" of it's being a "fire". It has been some of the states of matter (solid - "wood"), it is some of them (gas - vaopor & smoke released), and it will be some of them (solid - "ash"). I'm sure that there's more to the operating factors, however, that's all I know from memory.