Health and Safety Lesson
Completion requirements
Spend at least 5 Ngā Mīniti on this activity
Go through the activity to the end
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. |
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