Fire and Explosions

Introduction

   

What makes a fire burn? 

Why is one fire a roaring inferno while another barely creeps along? 

    

Fire is a chemical reaction in which energy in the form of heat is produced.  When forest fuels burn, there is a chemical combination of the oxygen in the air with woody material, pitch and other burnable elements found in the forest environment. 

This process in known as Combustion.

Fire

 

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