Is fire a solid, a liquid, or a gas?
Every object that has ever existed on this planet can be classified into three basic states of matter: solid, liquid or gas. That’s what we were told to believe in our science classes, right? But… what about fire? Imagine holding fire in your hands like a brick, storing it in some kind of vessel or even better, trying to fill a balloon with a raging inferno! Doesn’t seem possible, right? To all those people who scratched their heads during those boring chemistry classes, here’s a piece of trivia: fire doesn’t really belong to any of the aforementioned groups. In fact, the closest state of matter that it can be compared to is plasma. The nature of a flame depends on what is being burnt. A candle flame will primarily be a mixture of hot gases (air and vaporised paraffin wax). The oxygen in the air reacts with the paraffin to produce heat, light and carbon dioxide. Other materials – such as magnesium – burn much hotter, resulting in the fourth state of matter: plasma
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