When I was in school teachers always said everything is a solid, liquid, or a gas. well I don't see fire as any of them.
2007-01-09 05:10:35 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
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2007-01-09 05:13:22 · answer #1 · answered by vollballroxsmysox 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Fire is a gas that results from a chemical change. That is, a solid, liquid or gas will combine with oxygen and release energy, and in the process will become a new gas with a different chemical makeup.
2007-01-09 05:17:42 · answer #2 · answered by John S 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Fire is not so much a "thing" as it is a process. If you light a match the flame you see is "SUBLIME"; meaning that, you are seeing the process of a solid going directly to a gas without going through the liquid stage. Sublime; being a process, rather than a "thing".
2007-01-09 05:24:19 · answer #3 · answered by HeyDude 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I agree with HeyDude that fire is not a substance but a process. But I think what you want to know is what is the flame composed of. Flame consists of gases and soot particles that are hot enough to emit light. It is not a plasma. In order for it to be a plasma, it would need to be hot enough to first, break the molecules apart into atoms, and second, strip the atoms of their electrons. This does occur to some extent in the combustion process, but any plasma ion created quickly recombines to form a molecular combustion product. The bulk of the flame is molecules of compounds such as carbon dioxide and water.
Yellow in a flame is usually due to glowing soot particles, while the blue part of it is emission from carbon and carbon compounds as excited electrons return to their rest state. Other elements in the flame may emit other colors.
2007-01-09 06:01:28 · answer #4 · answered by injanier 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
The terms solid, liquid, or a gas pertain to states of matter.
Fire is no metal, no water or liquid gas nor is it a gas.
2007-01-09 05:18:50 · answer #5 · answered by Yttl 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Fire is gas that is simply so hot that it is giving off light. A light bulb does much the same thing: heats the gas in the bulb so much that some of particles are "excited" enough to emit photons.
2007-01-09 06:01:21 · answer #6 · answered by DC 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Fire is the visual effect seen from a reaction (rapid oxidation). It's energy in the forms of light and heat. Therefore it would be a many very small solids moving at incredible speeds.
2007-01-09 05:17:19 · answer #7 · answered by tom_cat_2k3 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Thank u Anican76. Gas? Where do you people get than from, it is a chemical reaction resulting in energy.
2007-01-09 08:53:04 · answer #8 · answered by Useless 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Fire is not a state of matter, it is the energy given off during a chemical reaction, in thi case combustion. Therefore, Fire is not matter, it is ENERGY
2007-01-09 07:27:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anican76 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think fire is combination of solid and gas but mostly gas!!
2007-01-09 05:14:32 · answer #10 · answered by smart-crazy 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋