Re: [www.keralites.net] Doubt

Fire is a process, not a physical object.

When you burn wood, the reaction is actually happening between the wood and oxygen in the air to form carbon dioxide and water vapor. Wood is a solid, but oxygen, carbon dioxide and water vapor are all gases.

If you have a gas powered stove, you are burning a gas called methane (or maybe propane). There everything is a gas.

So fire is not a solid or a gas, but it is the name for a type of reaction that can involve both solids and gases (and liquids too in fact).

If you mean the flame that you see as being fire you would be wrong. Flame is the result of fire.Fire is the combination of heat and a combustible material.

Regards,
S  a  m

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From: "mohamedrafeeq@mm.co.in" <mohamedrafeeq@mm.co.in>
To: kazy_grl@yahoo.com
Cc: keralites@YahooGroups.com
Sent: Sat, December 4, 2010 11:54:25 AM
Subject: Re: [www.keralites.net] Doubt
 

according to columbia encyclopedia, characteristics of gas include:
1.neither definite shape nor definite volume.
(flames, most often, do have shapes. such as those of candles.)

2. assumes the shape of it's container.
(how can u describe the flame of a lantern not taking the shape of the lantern?)

3. all gases condense into liquids or solids when sufficiently cooled or compressed.
(?)

From: kazy girl <kazy_grl@yahoo.com>
To: Keralites <Keralites@YahooGroups.com>
Cc: "mohamedrafeeq@mm.co.in" <mohamedrafeeq@mm.co.in>
Date: 12/04/2010 01:46 PM
Subject: Re: [www.keralites.net] Doubt

well, of course i think Gas... because flame is a mixture of gasses

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From: "mohamedrafeeq@mm.co.in" <mohamedrafeeq@mm.co.in>
To: Keralites <Keralites@YahooGroups.com>
Sent: Thu, December 2, 2010 10:30:42 PM
Subject: [www.keralites.net] Doubt

As is known to us all, matter is seen in three forms, namely solid, liquid and gas. (and latest by name plasma too.)

could any one tell me which form does FLAME belong to?

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