The oxygen that a fire needs is used to support the chemical reaction which takes place when something burns. The oxygen is used along with heat to convert the fuel, which typically is composed of hydrocarbons, to mostly carbon dioxide and water. Without the oxygen the fire would die out, because the chemical reaction couldn't take place without it. A fire needs three things in order to remain burning: fuel, an adequate supply of oxygen, and a sufficient heat source.
Oxygen does not itself burns but supports burning.If the burning substance does not get adequate amount of Oxygen the burning of a substance willl b reduced and fire wouldn't rise much.It will blowed off.
Fire is a chemical reaction between oxygen and some flammable substance. For example, when you burn methane, the main component of natural gas the equation is:
CH4 + 2O2 --> CO2 + 2H2O
It is like Humans we need it to breath so it is like the same concept for them if you get me.
But it leads onto another question....
Why is the sun burning when there is no oxygen in space?
Yes. Fire needs three things to exist: Heat, Fuel and Oxygen (known collectively as the fire triangle).
oxygen is part of the burning reaction CxHy +zO2--> H20 +CO2 + CO + fire
All forms of burning are combining chemicals with oxygen.
The oxygen that a fire needs is used to support the chemical reaction which takes place when something burns.
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You need oxygen, heat, and fuel.
In order for fire to burn, there is someting called the fire tetrahedron. The things needed for fire to burn are as listed: Heat, Oxygen, Fuel(of any sort), and a Chmeical Reaction with all of the above. I learned this from the multiple firefighting classes i have taken.
No. Only oxygen is sufficient for something to combust.
you need an hydrocarbon of some form to act as fuel (alkane or alkene) and you need oxygen (O2) and you need energy in the form of heat
Because when you blow on the coals you are adding oxygen to the fire and oxygen fuels a fire. A fire would simply go out without any oxygen. Because when you blow on the coals you are adding oxygen to the fire and oxygen fuels a fire. A fire would simply go out without any oxygen.
Oxygen. It supports combustion.
Fire needs the oxygen in the air. Any other source of oxygen would also sustain fire.
You could not make a fire on the moon because there is no oxygen on the moon. In order to have a fire, you need oxygen.
Fire needs oxygen to burn.
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You need oxygen, heat, and fuel.
For fire you need three main ingredients. First you need a fuel, this fuel can be anything that burns like wood for example. Second you need oxygen, without oxygen a fire cannot burn. Finally you need heat, even though fires give off heat you still need it to start a fire. If you remove any one of these three ingredients then the fire will die.
No. Adding oxygen to a fire will make it burn faster and hotter. In fact, one of the ways of putting out a fire is to cut off the supply of oxygen.
No it can't. You need oxygen to burn for it to work.
Yes, most fires need oxygen to burn (combustion is a rapid form of oxidation). If there is no continuous supply of oxygen, a fire will go out.
Rockets need to carry a steady supply of oxygen so that the fire that takes them off of the ground can burn. You must remember that to have fire you must have oxygen.
Fire need a fuel, so wood or leaves and of course it needs Oxygen (O2)! That's that. A fire needs three things, feul, oxygen and heat, remove any one and the fire will die.