how do dragons breath fire?

Answer 1

They have a little can if hairspray and a lighter consealed in their mouth,it's set up to go when they ROAR!

Answer 2

I used to teach a course on dragons. I have too much info. to put on here. But, basically, there are a few different theories: First, the scientific one. It says that dragons had multiple stomachs that they used to mix the chemicals when they "burped' and their throats with a kind of a valve that stopped the fire from going back inside. Another theory is that their internal body temperature was very high. So, when they breathed, their breath was hot enough to burn your @$$ off, but not fire. Another theory is that the dragons knew how to control energy. So, they could make anything burn, freeze, thin, thicken, etc. Burning was the most visible. There is much more to it than this but to know more you would need to have been in one of my classes :-)

Answer 3

It all starts when the dragon catch their prey. When dragons eat, they digest the food in a regular stomach. The digestion then continues in a second stomach that breaks down the food even further. After the dragon's body has used all it can from the second digestion, the body then turns the leftover food and acid into a byproduct of hydrogen. The dragon can hold the hydrogen in various large glands in it's body for later use, and can call upon it at any time it needs to. When the dragon needs to belch it's flame, the glands release the hydrogen into the lungs where it mixes with other various chemicals the body creates. Once this mixture finds oxygen, it burns extremely hot, and very quick. The dragon usually has enough hydrogen in its body for about three spits of flame, but that should be plenty for anything coming up against a large red dragon. This explanation is about the same for dragons that breath other types of breath. Their bodies just break down food into different compounds.

Answer 4

I have heard of many logical ways that dragons "breath" fire. I am a dragonologist, or some one who firmly believes in dragons and studies them, and in Dragonolgy: The Complete Book of Dragons the theory is that dragon breath fire with a pouch in their throat that holds a piece of flint and iron pyrite, and when they want to breath fire they jiggle these pieces to create a spark to light venom from their teeth. Even though I study the teachings of Dr. Drake, the author of Dragonology, I have a different idea of how dragons breath fire. I believe that the pouch filled with hydrogen in there stomach that dragons use to fly also serves as a way to create fire. They can expel this gas by opening muscular flaps under their tounge to release the gas and ignite it with venom in their teeth, using a spark created from 'clicking' or grinding two special teeth in their mouth. Another idea is that dragons have two glands in the back of their throat that secrete two different chemicals and when these chemicals combine they creat a jet of fire. In any case in order for a dragon to breath fire they have to have some way to prevent burning up their mouth. There is a flap in the mouth that folds down over the throat to prevent the dragon from 'swallowing' the fire, and the saliva in the mouth is special, acting as a fire retardant. Dragons are very misunderstood, and I'm sure that if they weren't in hiding from us destructive humans, they'd be the rulers of this world.

Answer 5

Interesting! Well Dragons were created to remind children of ancient times to remember the 3 most vicious animals. The lion, the snake, and the birds of prey. Generally the lion is the head and tail. The snake is the long neck and tongue and the birds of prey are the body, wings, and talons. The fire portion arose when they experienced uncontrollable fires and fires that couldn't be explained. This was later added in tales to remind children what dangers fire can bring.

Answer 6

People can be very unforgiving when you don't quite get the context of your question right can't they?
I take it you meant;
'How would Dragons breathe fire ' and I think you now have some possibilities if the creatures existed how it could be done.

Don't let others spoil your imagination, without it we humans would never have invented the telephone, car or plane or thousands of other gadgets those ungracious people take for granted.

Answer 7

Too much Vindaloo curry??

It is interesting to speculate whether "fire-breathing monsters" have some basis in reality. After all, who would have thought that an electric eel or firefly was real if they had not been seen?

There is a "fire-breathing" beetle called the bombadier beetle. Hydrogen Peroxide and Hydroquinone are contained in separate chambers in the beetle’s abdomen, from where it can be ejected to confront a predator with an explosive mixture reaching 212º F!

Also there is some paleontological evidence that a skull arrangement could have accommodated "fire-breathing." In his delightful book Dinosaurs by Design, Dr. Duane Gish discusses how the hadrosaurs’ nasal cavities could easily have connected to chemical reserves in the hollow, horny crest.

Answer 8

Animal planet explains that very well. the most likly theroy allthough there are others is that dragons eat food like we do, digest it and bacteria gets in their gut like we have. but this baccteria instead of producing methain makes hydrogen. they could then use high consentrations of oxagen or some other substence to make fire. the fire would not engnight untill leaving the mouth so technicaly they don't breath fire they blow it.

Answer 9

there is a tunnel or a tube if you will at the roof of the dragon's throat. in that is a fire pouch that contains all the needs to make fire: heat, oxygen, dryness... so on. when the dragon feels threatened, the dragon's brain would unlock a trigger, breaking the barrier between throat and fire pouch, releasing it.

Answer 10

i watched Discovery channel once and it said that dragons had bits of flint or something stuck on their teeth and their breath was flammable, so when they gnashed their teeth down and let out a breath, it caused fire. i believe there were dragons. all cultures have drawings of them and i think they were probably left over from pre-historic times. the show i saw also said that they actually did find a skeleton of one in a freezing cave, wings and all my friend.

Answer 11

It works a bit like a cigarette lighter. They have a special sack adjacent to their rectums, to collect and refine methane gas. When the dragon needs to breath fire, it allows the gas to escape into it's mouth where a flint mechanism ignites the gas.