Can things burn in space without oxygen?

Question

Can things in space burn without oxygen? Would the temperatures have to be drastically different to make up for the lack of atmosphere and near vacuum and temperature drain?

Answer 1

yes and no - not what you think of as burn - but you might want to take a look at the big yellow thing in the sky - no oxygen there but it sure supports combustion ( of a type - but if you get near it will burn you ) lol

seriously though - fire only requires two things - fuel and an oxidizer ( note the word oxidizer is a material that CONTAINS oxygen not oxygen itself ) so if you put these two together at the proper temperature and ratio you have fire ( forget the cold of space since the reaction itself can raise the temperature)

so the answer is a qualified YES

Answer 2

Burning Without Oxygen

Answer 3

You could have rapid chemical reactions without oxygen - say with flourine or such. However, in space, there isn't just a lack of oxygen - there's a lack of everything. Any sort of gas will rapidly diffuse away, leaving insufficient concentrations for any sort of reaction.

Yes, we could have a fire in space - like at a hole in an oxygen tank, where there is a steady supply of oxygen nearby. But in general, no.

Answer 4

Assuming you have some variety of propulsion, however if its compressed air, a rocket engine, etc., you do not desire an ecosystem for it to "push" against. This replaced into an undemanding fallacy between even some scietists as we approacehd the area age. They theory area ships might get into the better areas of the ambience and not be waiting to bypass any greater effective. It seems that the optimal shape of the nozzle (think of of the three massive cones in the back of the area commute) varies based on the ambient rigidity - in area the nozzle must be a lot wider, and in the ambience it rather is going to be slender - yet no count the form, in case you're taking photos some thing out of the back of an area deliver, it rather is going to pass forward. each and every action has an opposite and equivalent reaction. Even in area.

Answer 5

No. If you got it hot enough it would melt just float away or evaporate and disappear into the space around it. Burn is oxidation. We put things in vacuum furnaces and heat them and get all kind of different results depending od the material and how hot it gets

Answer 6

One of the answers got it right. Fire needs an oxidiser, not oxygen. That is how, the rockets are working.

Answer 7

Thats a good question I have thought of it may time s maybe there is just enough to have a slow burn !

Answer 8

If you set it on fire, it will probably burn, because that's what I learned in science class.
P.S. Remember when you pick your favorite answer that I am only 13 years old.

Answer 9

I don't think so because to have a fire O2(oxygen) is needed so if there is no O2 then there can be no fire.That is the reason why CO2 is used in Fire Extinguisher's.

Answer 10

That depends on how you define burning.