What is the state of fire-solid, liquid or gas?
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Fire is basically a mixture of hot gases.\nHence it's state can be taken as gaseous.\nI thinks "fire" in your question means flame.\nIf flame is very hot, then gases nearby get ionized and we get plasma- another state of matter
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As mentioned by someone previously the "firey" part of fire is plasma, which is a fluid composed of free electrons and positive ions (atoms stripped of one or more electrons). Plasma is sometimes referred to as the "4th state of matter".\n\nThe light you see is emitted when electrons "move" from an atomic orbital of higher potential energy to an orbital of lower potential energy, the potential energy of the electron being converted to light. The colour of the light depends on precisely what the energy difference is, and in the case of standard fire the colour we see is actually a mixture of many colours.
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it should be plasma\nif u mean ice>water>water vapor>plasma\n\nu see,when a solid is heated to a certain extent it melts into liquid,and further heated it becomes a vapour,when it is heated to a greater extent,the molecules break up into atoms and atoms into very minute states.these form a cloud of particles which is called plasma.\nfor ex.,the temp. of stars is upto millions of degrees hence the plasma is present and also known as fourth state of matter.
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Its all about shape and volume.  Solids have a set, defined shape, and a set volume.  Liquids have no defined shape, but a set volume, and gas has no set shape nor a set volume.  Those two things define whether or not something is solid, liquid, or gas.
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The air surrounding the fire is heated. \n\nHot air is less dense than cold air.\n\nLess dense air goes up; while cold air replaces the hot air and is heated,\n\nThus a convection of air current is set up continuously giving the flame the obvious figure.\n\nBy blowing air through a nozzle we can change the direction of flame.
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Water. As a liquid it sculpts the landscape, sustains life, and dissolves most other substances. As a solid, it expands to a state less dense than as a liquid, can support immense amounts of pressure (trucks above the Arctic Circle drive on ice roads), and can rip through steel hulled ships. As a gas, it provides a remarkable stable compound of the volatile Hydrogen and combustible Oxygen which allows it to drive out weather system. \nAlso, water acts as both an ionic and molecular compound, as if that weren't enough already.
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liquids and gases only.\nparticles must be able to move around to form convection currents and solid particles are not free to move about.
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fire is the heat let off by oxidation (bonding oxygen to other compounds) since the oxygen in water is already bonded to hydrogen it can't be used in the oxidation of the fuel of the fire. water w/ it's high heat capacity absorbes a lot of energy  and also prevents oxygen from getting to the fuel.
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I do not think so. Fire can be described as a plasma, that is to say a mixture of high energy radicals neutral and ionic specicies. Freezing fire will require minimizing the kinetic energy of these species. Reduction in their kinetic energy will result in the destruction of the plasma or fire itself.\n\nHope this helps\n\n Note: To "freeze" something would require that it change its physical state to a "frozen" one, namely a solid. Frozen plasma gas, thus defies the definition of a plasma:\n\nPlasma (physical def.): a collection of charged particles (as in the atmospheres of stars or in a metal) containing about equal numbers of positive ions and electrons and exhibiting some properties of a gas but differing from a gas in being a good conductor of electricity and in being affected by a magnetic field
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A real gas is a form of matter that will conform to the sides of its container.  As it is compressed its temperature increases.  It is the only form of matter than can be compressed at all.  Gas is the least organized form of matter.
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melting physical\nrusting chemical\nburning chemical
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Fire isn't an element. It's a chemical reaction, or more precisely, a combustion reaction. A combustion reaction occurs when there is sufficient heat, fuel, and oxygen. The reaction is this:\n\nthing you're burning + O2 --> CO2 + H2O + other elements
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Solid or gaseous, depending on what the question means when refering to non-metals:  There are 11 gases total out of the entire table (6 are nobel gases) and only 2 liquids..mercury and bromine.  The true non-metals comprise only 7 elements, and only 3 of those (hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen) are gases.  If you takea  looser definition of non-metals, which includes the true nonmetals plus the halogens and noble gases, the the answer is gaseous.  From the wording of the question, I would think they were trying to get you to say gaseous.
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solid\nliquid\ngas\nplasma
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Molecules changing state from liquid to gas...entropy increasing...S is positive.
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the three properties of earth science are gas, liquid, and, solid. wind (or air moving quickly) is a gas.
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flammability is a physical property of a substance.