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5375592 No.5375592 [Reply] [Original]

I have a question for you /sci/ What state of matter is fire in? Is it a solid liquid gas or plasma? Or a combination of both?

>> No.5375593

>>5375592
Since fire is a process I don't think it fits into any category. Although I suppose you could say it is a mixture of hot gases and in some scenarios it could be seen as plasma, if you microwaved flames for example.

>> No.5375595

Fire is an element, along with the others of water, earth and wind.

>> No.5375596

>>5375593
this

>> No.5375600

>>5375595
It's not the 1800's anymore. This is also not /x/

>> No.5375601

>>5375592
Depends on your definition

If you're referring to the light and the heat, then it's not at all matter, but rather just energy.

If you're referring to the gas particles that bump and bump and exchange electrons, it's still a gas. It can however be a plasma when the flame is hot enough that the gas particles are hitting each other so fast the electrons just get flung away and the gas particles are ionised (definition of plasma)

>> No.5375603

Fire is made of phlogiston.

>> No.5375606

>>5375603
lol'd

>> No.5375631

depends on each fire, what you see is the emission of photons due to the high temperature, which mostly corresponds to gasses mostly.

>> No.5375653

>>5375601
>light
>not at all matter, but rather just energy.
you are retarded, why do you answer something you know nothing about? force cariers arnt "just energy"

>> No.5375701

>>5375600
>not getting an obvious joke
>being this autistic

>> No.5375700

fire is a grain

>> No.5375721

>>5375701
that was a shit joke
>>5375603
was better.

>> No.5375731

>>5375721
>trying to rationalize the autism.

>> No.5375733

>>5375731
>using autism as an insult.

>> No.5375738

It's fire just the hot gas where the molecules have absorbed the heat of whatever chemical reaction is going on at the time and the bright glow is caused by the high amounts of energy being emitted?

>> No.5376062

>>5375733
>is a butthurt autistic kid

>> No.5376097

Solid/liquid/gas are arbitrarily defined states. If you're talking about science, you have to talk about the state of the atoms when the fire is taking place. Same thing with then liquid/solid of an object.