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2006-11-06 11:43:16 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Chemistry

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Fire is simply a term that we use to describe a chemical reaction that results in the release of incandescent gas (usually due to the effects of the high temperature of the reaction on the reaction product (gas)).

Ordinary wood fires are not hot enough to create plasma, the fourth state of matter. The sun is an incandescent ball of plasma, so it is technically not "fire" although it may appear to be so. A burning match, while hot, is not nearly hot enough to convert gas into plasma.

2006-11-06 11:58:54 · answer #1 · answered by mortis 2 · 1 1

Fire is not a "state of matter", it is the visible manifestation of a chemical reaction (or more correctly of a series of many chemical reactions).

What you "see" as flames is actually the emission of light energy by the atoms involved in combustion. Since energy cannot be 'destroyed', when matter 'burns' it merely changes its form, and any left-over energy is released as light or heat. The colour of the flames is actually an indication of the atomic and molecular make-up of the fuel source, and can be used to determine the nature of that fuel based on the wavelengths of the emission. Neat, huh?

2006-11-06 11:50:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Gas

2006-11-06 11:54:44 · answer #3 · answered by . 6 · 0 0

gas, because if you touch it you cant really feel it like hit it against something so it cant be a solid and it cant be a liquid because you can't pour fire out of a container or anything

2006-11-06 11:50:35 · answer #4 · answered by Colleen D 2 · 0 0

i might say, in spite of the undeniable fact that i'm no longer a technological awareness guy, that it somewhat is none of those. it somewhat is the manufactured from a chemical reaction. some would say it somewhat is gas, or gases, yet i do no longer think of this may be genuine. If it have been, it would recommend that daylight hours is a gas, or gases, while that's the manufactured from the burning of gases on the solar. no longer lots help perchance in spite of the undeniable fact that it variety of feels logical to me.

2016-10-21 09:33:43 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Matter is anything that has mass and occupies space. The flame itself is a mixture of gases (vaporized fuel, oxygen, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, water vapor, and many other things) and so is matter. The light produced by the flame is energy, not matter. The heat produced is also energy, not matter.
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2006-11-06 11:46:49 · answer #6 · answered by cop350zx 5 · 0 0

Fire is a chemical reaction and not an actual state.... Liquids, solids and gases can all burn....

2006-11-06 11:47:01 · answer #7 · answered by James C 2 · 0 0

fire is not a gas or liquid is Plasm
the states of mater are liquid solid gas and plasm......until now

2006-11-06 11:47:24 · answer #8 · answered by AnSwERinho 3 · 0 0

Fire is a gas, the only difference it has from other gasses is its colors.

2006-11-06 12:15:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Fire is not matter it is a chemical reaction of fuel, oxygen, and heat.

2006-11-06 11:51:58 · answer #10 · answered by my_iq_135 5 · 0 0

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