What is it about a fire that is sooo mesmerizing?
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I think it is the random dancing and constant movement of the flames. The constant movement has a calming and almost hypnotic effect on people ...
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Incipient this is the building stage of fire.\nFree burning this is the stage of fire when all the condition are right. temperatures at cieling height can get well over 1000 degrees.\nSmoldering in this stage the fire has exhausted all of its oxygen and cannot complete the combustion process. Heat and fuel are still availabe but not oxygen. It is during this time that that the introduction of oxygen say by opening a door or window that a backdraft could occur. That is one reason firefighters cut vent holes in roofs so that they evacuate all the heat and flammable gases up and out of the structure
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Simultaneous combustion!
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Because it's supposed to be really hot! Trust me, it is really hot!You should try it!
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BLUE FLAMES ARE HOTTER THAN RED OR YELLOW ONES ♥♥♥
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A regular fire, like in a fireplace or campfire, consists of burning organic material such as wood or other plant material which is mainly made from Carbon, with hydrogen. When the wood burns, the carbon combines with oxygen. It releases a lot of energy that was stored in the chemical bonds of the wood.\n\nAs the wood burns, some of it is very hot, and other parts are not yet hot, are heating up or are being burned loose and carried away by the currents of air moving between the sticks of wood. So the fire is giving off Carbon dioxide, partially burned fractions of the wood, hot ut unburned pieces of the wood, and pieces of wood that are hardly hot at all. In some cases, there will be carbon atoms that are hot but they were in a part of the fire where all the oxygen had been used up, so those atoms may be hot but not burned. \n\nAll these various materials can be glowing with heat. Because they are all different temperatures, they have different colors.  It might be easier to see this in a candle flame than in a fire. \n\nIf you look at the candle flame you see a part where the actual combustion is taking place - that is, where there are carbon atoms actually in the process of combining with oxygen. That area might be quite hot and have no color at all. But there is probably an area above that which is yellow - that's probably unburned carbon atoms which are glowing from heat, but they are cooling off. As they cool off you see an area where they are no longer yellow. If you put a cool piece of glass or metal in that part of the flame, it will collect a coating of the unburned carbon atoms, what we call 'soot'.\n\nPeople have been looking at candles for a long time, trying to understand how the burning process works. So I think you could go all the way back to Michael Faraday in the mid 1800s for a book on candles and flames, and some updated versions on the web.
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intense, true, lasting, enormous, exhilarating
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Settin' the Woods on Fire
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The air surrounding the flame is heated up. \n\nThe density of hot air is less and hot air goes up, the cooler light air fills that space. \n\nHence the shape of the flame is maintained.
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luminous flame can be seen, gives off light,nonluminous you can not see, usally from a very high heat source
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well it's awfully flammable...
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A firetruck.  It's red, fast, noisey and it goes to hot places.
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Fire is the rapid combination of oxygen with fuel in the presence of heat, typically characterized by flame, a body of incandescent gas that contains and sustains the reaction and emits light and heat. (from www.straightdope.com)\n\nThe typical, bright, yellowish-orange upper part of a flame is due to the heating of unburned carbon particles.\n\nThe temperature of the fire and the material being burned are the factors that determine the color of the flame. The various colors of flames in a wood fire are due to the different substances in the flames.
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It is not dry heat . Lot of sultryness and salt too .Humidity high.
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yeah we have a big beautiful fireplace. we used it there last week for the first time in months because it was soo cold. we usually light it when its stormy-I love when the fire's lit, its so pretty :D
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Fire is a process of Oxidation.  \n\nIt's temperature is equal to or greater than the Auto-Ignition Point for the fuel substance.  Each Fuel will have it's own unique Auto-Ignition Point.\n\nIt's color is determined by the elements present, and the visual spectrum of thier discharge photons...  Photons are discharge as the electrons jump from high to lower excitation levels, and each element has it's own color signature.\n\nMost fires are orange yellow and white because of the large ammount of Hydrogen in the combustion process of organic (or formerly) material.  Occasionally Red will come out thans to the carbon of the same.\n\nIf you add powered metals to the mix your flame will change color.  Copper makes a pretty green for instance...
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when we are burning any thing generally the body releases some gases and especially carbon di oxide and carbon monoxide.\nand in some systems( organic) sooty nad non sooty flames are there.if we observe flame with black smoke it is sooty and if the flame is without that black smoke it is non sooty.\nso,the gases which are released causes the flame to go up.\nas it contains hot gases which are with low density ,they will go up.