What IS fire? (and what happened in Beirut?)
Chemistry For Your Life
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What Is Fire?
After the Halloween episode, we didn't really have a satisfying answer to what fire is. We may also have even gotten this from question from listener Grant D. So it's a long reaching question that's been in the minds of us chemistry for your life people. And so I'm going to say this short answer, fire, the hot stuff that you see is the result of a chemical reaction. It's a release of heat energy and light energy. That's the little flames are is light and neat and energy being released. You'll see different things in the flame, but for the most part, what you're seeing is heat and light.
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