does fire have mass of its own???????

Question

explain in brief

Answer 1

Yes. Have you ever noticed that fires cast a shadow in sunlight?

Fire is glowing gas and other particles, and gas has mass.

Answer 2

Fire is a series of actions and changes that produces a result — a process. In fact, it is an oxidation process (called combustion or burning) that gives out heat and light energy as well as glowing gas and a small amount of plasma.

So, talking about fire's mass is like talking about the mass of digestion, or boiling, or getting a driver's license — although it certainly makes us think about what fire is. But a process doesn't have mass.

Flames are another matter. They are burning gases and gasses certainly do have mass.

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Answer 3

Fire is produced when a substance undergoes combustion and burns. i would say that fire does have some mass even if it is negligible. based on my observations fire seems to be a kind of gas or plasma.

looking at a burning flame it could be said that it has no fixed shape as the shape of a flame can easily be contorted. also unlike gases it seems to only be moving as long as a constant stream of energy is supplied to it like a jet of combustible gas or a mass of fusible material as is seen in the Sun's core.

since the Sun is also made of plasma and has enormous mass then yes it would be safe to say that plasma has some mass.

Answer 4

A flame is glowing air. Fire itself is a word that describes the appearance of an object. The paper is "on fire" as shown by the hot glowing air around it. The paper has mass. The air has mass. The fire, no.
It's kind of like your image in a mirror. Does it have mass? Well, no. You have mass. The mirror has mass. But not the image.

Answer 5

No, fire does not have mass of its own. Thats because the flames are present just because the gases are burning.
I mean, every substance has some compounds which are combustible, i.e they can burn. Fire is just the burning of those compounds when they are given sufficient temperature.
When those compounds are completely burnt, there are no flames, but the other compounds present, which are not so combustible, are burning. Thats why smoke is produced.

The compounds have mass, but not the fire.

Answer 6

If you define fire as the body of hot gas that you see then yes, because gas has mass.

Answer 7

No.
Fire is is the visual manifistation of a Thermo-Chemical activity.
The Photons that allow you to see this may have mass, albeit almost 0, they are not fire.

Answer 8

Yes

Answer 9

Fire is not a substance so it does not have any mass. Its just a phase of a reaction.

Answer 10

fire is similar to that of light as both are the energies emitted by electrons.hence both are massless.