If For Every Action...There Is A Reaction...?

Question

Then how is it that we 'blow' to extinguish a fire and we 'blow' to make a fire...

Answer 1

you Blow oxygen in abundance extinguishes the flame. (action/reaction)
you blow moderately on coals to attempt to get the fire going, but once started you Stop! (action=blow reaction =flame)
Funny but no matter what you blow there is always some kind of reaction isn't there?

Answer 2

Somebody has been eating birthday cake while watching Survivor.

So you add oxygen from carbon dioxide to the base of an ember and the spark becomes a flame that travel up the burning material, a chemical reaction combined with a thermal dynamic reaction, namely heat rises.


Meanwhile, you exert force by blowing carbon dioxide at a flame on a wick and the flame is extinguished because the cold air has pushed the hot air off the wick and the flame lacking a wick is absorbed in the oxygen.

Of course if you want to try this with pure oxygen you will blow thing things up rather than blow things out.

Answer 3

I think you answered your own question. Action--blow to extinguish the fire=reaction. Blow to make a fire = reaction. One could debate forever the "degree" of the action or reaction; the "good" or "bad" of it. (Subjectively, of course.) But that isn't your question. For every action there IS a reaction.

I believe this question was very properly placed in philosophy. I also think you used fire as an analogy--not to get an answer in physics.

Answer 4

They are different actions

Everything causes a reaction no matter how small or big the action

There are different reactions in different amounts and in different ways so they are different actions.

You excessively blow air to blow out a candle
You gently yet firmly blow air to a fire around its base causing the amount of oxygen to increase making the fire burn more oxygen therefore making it bigger.
Yet if you blow to much the fire burns out because the amount of oxygen is greater than the amount of fire , so the air sort of swallows the fire

Two different actions.Hypothetically it is impossible to repeat two EXACT same actions as time place among other things change the action therefore changing the reaction

Hope this answered your question

Answer 5

Well I don't understand the title of the question... But we blow into a fire to let more oxygen into it so it can turn it into energy. You can only blow on small fires (like candles) with small sources of material to burn to put it out. I think it's because you're moving the energy to for away from the source for too long to keep the flame lite.

Answer 6

This is a physics question not a philosophical one. However, the answer is a degree of cooling and heating. When you blow out a match, the coolness of your breath and the force of it extinguish the flame. When starting a fire, a gentle breeze is to fan the flame to spread it to tinder and further ignition. Thus action and reaction. You knew this, so why the question?

Answer 7

Likewise, a 'blow' to the chest can save a life and a 'blow' to the chest can end a life.

In all cases, the reaction may differ, but so does the circumstance. Interesting observation though.

Peace

Answer 8

theyre still both action and reaction but when youre tryna make flames higher u dont blow as hard when you tryna makes flames go out u blow harder

Answer 9

What about sucking out the oxygen?

Answer 10

thats a physics question not a philosophy question.........but anyway...


the same can be said of water.......does it keep you alive or does it drown you.....its all a question of volume.....just like air with a fire