Is a flame a solid, liquid or a gas or what is it?

Question

I know its called Combustion but wat is the state of the flame???

Answer 1

"Fire is simply glowing gas and other combustible particles such as carbon. It is not plasma, as it is not hot enough to reach such high ionization as is required of plasma (an 'electrically neutral, highly ionized gas composed of ions, electrons, and neutral particles').

This state of matter can be generated through focused concentrations of energy (such as fuel being exposed to an already open flame or to the sun's rays focused through a lens), or through an exothermic chemical reaction usually accompanied by intense heat released during a rapid loss of electrons from the combustible material (striking a match). Fire may be visible as a brilliant glow and/or flames and may produce smoke."

Answer 2

Flame typically contains gas, BUT it is always highly excited/ionized and can (often does) contain plasma or a partial plasma. So you kind of need to ask which flame your talking about to know if it is gas or plasma.

Edit: Gas vs. Plasma. Remember Plasma more or less means that the elements have been at least partially ionized by energy (not to be confused with chemical ions). Different elements ionize at different temperatures and conditions and can be detected by spectral lines in the emitted light. Spectral lines can be detected in many flames on earth (if you look for them) thus they contain plasma.

So, why do so many sources insist Flame is a gas? There is a very good reason behind this actually. The majority of the light you see from a candle light IS black body radiation from gas and solids (the solids part is new to me, interesting! But you mean candle wood flame here I guess), so in a sense what you see as flame is in fact a gas (well, actually if most of the light in a particular flame is from the soot, that flame might be a solid!!!)

But of course the original questioner didn't specify the type of flames so thus my answer still is:

For the original questioner, flame just is the light emitted by a region of gas/plasma. The rising gas a few inches above the flame probably has the same component elements and many of the same chemicals.

Answer 3

A flame itself isn't "a gas." it really is a small area of area the position some extreme chemical reactions are taking position. Oxygen (in gaseous variety) is chemically combining with atoms contained in the gas (which will properly be good, liquid or gas). This reaction releases warmth and delicate, which we come across as a flame. the warm temperature has a tendency to rigidity different gas right into a gaseous state (no matter if it isn't a gas already); which makes it extra uncomplicated for the oxygen to combine with it, which releases nevertheless extra mild and warm temperature, and so on. So the area the position the flame is, is the area the position there is gaseous oxygen right now combining with gaseous gas.

Answer 4

A flame is powered by a fuel source (solid, liquid OR gas) burning in an oxygen atmosphere. The flame itself is a chemical reaction (release of energy in the form of heat and light).

Thats really about as complex as it needs to be for most intents and purposes.

Answer 5

A flame is generally a mixture of gas and solid. The solid particles (which are small) are most often seen as the orange part of the flame - they are cooler and radiate red not blue.
The solid part of a flame deposits on cold surfaces as soot.

A flame is most definitely not a plasma - it is way too cold.

Answer 6

It is a gas that is hot enough to radiate visible light.

An ordinary flame is not plasma. Plasma is a 4th state of matter that is a highly charged gas. The outer area of the sun is plasma, neon lights are plasma, but a flame like from a fire is just hot gas.

Answer 7

Gas

Answer 8

Gas

Answer 9

Gas

Answer 10

I think its non of the above. If it were a gas you could contain it indefinitely. It is the result of combustion so something has to be consumed right, so how can it be a gas .