Question

What is fire?

Answer 1

Fire

• Chemical reaction between oxygen in the atmosphere and some sort of fuel gives Fire.
• The fire triangle is Oxygen, fuel, and heat.
• Combustion happens when fuel reacts with oxygen to release heat energy
• $$\begin{gathered} \mathrm{Fuel}+{\mathrm{O}}_2\to {\mathrm{CO}}_2+{\mathrm{H}}_2\mathrm{O}+\mathrm{heat}\mathrm{energy} \\ \left(\mathrm{Oxygen}\right)(\mathrm{Combustion}\mathrm{products}) \end{gathered}$$
• Combustion that results in a flame is very fast and is called burning.