what elements must be present for a fire to burn?
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What Are The Elements That Cause Fires to Start? A chemical reaction with fuel, oxygen, and heat must be present in the correct levels in order for fire to occur. By removing any one of these four elements, a fire cannot exist, or it will be extinguished if it is already burning. See our Fire Safety & Firewatch Products. Return to the Workplace Safety Center.
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- This article discusses the various ways in which electricity can be involved in the cause of fires and recent developments in investigation techniques. Three elements must be present in order for a fire to initiate. These are oxygen, fuel and heat. Not only do these elements have to be present together at the same time, but the fuel must be conditioned in a way that the heat source can initiate an exothermic oxidation reaction. Electricity can play an important role in this process by providing the heat source.
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The Combustion Process 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.
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What is needed for a substance to burn? For example, paper and wood, which is made of mostly carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, burns in oxygen to form carbon dioxide and hydrogen oxide (water vapour). Magnesium metal burns in air to form a white powder magnesium oxide.
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Fire Extinguisher : 101 Not all metals are flammable. Some of the combustible metals are: magnesium, titanium, uranium, potassium, calcium, sodium, and lithium. The fuel that ignites class D fires is usually in the form of metal fines - tiny, thin pieces of metal, often shavings or metal dust left over from machining, that can spark a fire.
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Keeping Hay Fires from Spontaneously Combusting In the past, farmers sprinkled salt on wet hay as it was stacked to prevent spoilage, but salt does not prevent spontaneous combustion. Dry ice, liquid nitrogen or carbon dioxide gas pumped into the hay can prevent combustion by eliminating the oxygen from the hay mass.
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The Four Elements: Fire, Earth, Air and Water The Four Elements: Fire, Earth, Air and Water. As recently as a few hundred years ago, Western scientists considered the whole earth to be made of 4 elements: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. Even though science has taken a different turn, we can still use this ancient wisdom to make sense of the world. Fire signs. As you can see, every fourth sign is a fire sign.
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- You should not do this activity without the support of the local fire department. Presentation Tips: Refer the participants to the Fire Basics handout. • Explain that fire requires the following three elements to exist: • Heat: Heat is required to elevate the temperature of a material to its ignition point.
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- • Fuel: The fuel for a fire may be a solid (e.g., coal, wood, paper, cloth, hay, etc.) , liquid. (e.g., gasoline, kerosene, alcohol, paint, cooking oil, etc.), or gas (e.g., propane, natural. gas, butane, etc.). The type and quantity of the fuel will determine which method should. be used to extinguish the fire. • Oxygen: Most fires will burn vigorously in any atmosphere of at least 20 percent. oxygen. Without oxygen, most fuels could be heated until entirely vaporized, yet would. not burn.
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- Fires can't burn in the oxygen-free vacuum of space, but guns can shoot. Modern ammunition contains its own oxidizer, a chemical that will trigger the explosion of gunpowder, and thus the firing of a bullet, wherever you are in the universe. No atmospheric oxygen required.
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- The firefly's abdomen contains luciferin, as well as the chemicals luciferase, magnesium, and adenosine triphosphate (ATP). In simple terms, when the firefly sends oxygen (the insect's signal) to the abdomen, the oxygen combines with these chemicals and transforms the luciferin into an unstable, high-energy state.
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Composition The composition inside the firework must however contain 6 vital ingredients: Charcoal, commonly known in the pyrotechnic industry as black powder is the most common fuel used in fireworks. Normally, all fuels will contain an organic element such as charcoal or thermite. The mechanism by which the fuel functions in the firework is relatively simple.
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Fossil Fuels Notes What are the four primary elements found in coal? 90% carbon, 3% oxygen, 4% hydrogen, and 1% sulfur. What forms of air pollution do these elements become as part of coal combustion? When coal is burned for fuel, it combines with oxygen in air to form several air pollutions. What substances are contained within coal ash?
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The Four Elements: Fire, Earth, Air and Water Water is made of air and fire can’t exist without air to begin with… plus all the plants and trees grown from the earth would die if they didn’t have carbon dioxide, so therefore Air is technically the best element.
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Introduction to Psychology âPSY101 WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGY? FIRE EXTINGUISHER TRAINING. PROGRAM. Fire safety, at its most basic, is based upon the principle. of keeping fuel sources and ignition sources separate. Three things must be present at the same time to produce fire: 1. Enough oxygen to sustain combustion. 2. Enough heat to reach ignition temperature. 3. Some fuel or combustible material. These three elements form the fire triangle that is necessary for a fire to burn. Together, they produce the chemical reaction that is fire. Take away any of these things and the fire will be extinguished. FUEL CLASSIFICATIONS Fires are classified according to the type of fuel that is burning. If you use the wrong type of extinguisher on the wrong class of fire, you might make matters worse.
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The Origin of Wildfires and How They Are Caused Wildfire Chemistry. Remembering the fire triangle, fire needs fuel, oxygen, and heat to ignite and spread. Where ever forests grow, the fuel for forest fires is provided mainly by continued biomass production along with the resulting fuel load of that vegetative growth.
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Meteorology  (Aristotle) ...four bodies are fire, air, water, earth. (339a15-16). Fire occupies the highest place among them all, earth the lowest, and two elements correspond to these in their relation to one another, air being nearest to fire, water to earth. (339a16-19).ome of the vapour that is formed by day does not rise high because the ratio of the fire that is raising it to the water that is being raised is small. (347a13-15). Both dew and hoar-frost are found when the sky is clear and there is no wind.
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Evacuation Plans and Procedures eTool Fire and extinguisher operation. Fire Triangle: To understand how fire extinguishers work, you need to understand a little about fire. Fire is a very rapid chemical reaction between oxygen and a combustible material, which results in the release of heat, light, flames, and smoke. For fire to exist, the following four elements must be present at the same time: Enough oxygen to sustain combustion.
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V (d). Chemical Safety - Flammable Chemicals For a fire to occur, three conditions must be met: 1  the concentration of the flammable vapor must be between the lower and upper flammable limits,  an oxidizing agent (e.g. the air in the room or a chemical oxidizer) must be available, and.
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How does friction start a fire? C'mon Baby, Light My Fire. The ingredients needed to start a fire are traditionally illustrated in the fire triangle. The three legs of the triangle are fuel, oxygen and heat. When enough of these three factors is present, a chemical reaction occurs that results in fire. This is why you can start a fire with two sticks: The fuel is the sticks, the oxygen comes from the air and fiction provides the necessary heat.
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Help, My Degree Is Underwater Education pays. That's the lesson of study after study on the income effects of going to college and graduate school. In general, you make more money if you get a higher degree.
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How does friction start a fire? The three legs of the triangle are fuel, oxygen and heat. When enough of these three factors is present, a chemical reaction occurs that results in fire. This is why you can start a fire with two sticks: The fuel is the sticks, the oxygen comes from the air and fiction provides the necessary heat. But this is far from the only circumstance in which friction starts a fire. Even lighting a match relies on the heat that comes from the friction of striking.
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How Fire Works The ancient Greeks considered fire one of the major elements in the universe, alongside water, earth and air. This grouping makes intuitive sense: You can feel fire, just like you can feel earth, water and air. You can also see it and smell it, and you can move it from place to place. But fire is really something completely different. Earth, water and air are all forms of matter -- they are made up of millions and millions of atoms collected together. Fire isn't matter at all. It's a visible, tangible side effect of matter changing form -- it's one part of a chemical reaction.
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- 3 elements are needed for a fire: fuel, oxygen (air), and heat. The carbon dioxide is used to displace the oxygen being used in a fire. Since fire has no more oxygen available … because it is replaced by the carbon dioxide, the fire will go out.  Carbon dioxide is taken in by plants and split into oxygen and  carbon. The oxygen is releas … ed as a bi-product. The carbon is used  to make glucose, a sugar that plants synthesize for energy. Glucose  is a six carbon sugar, therfore 6 CO2 molecules are needed to  create one glucose molecule.
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- Confidence votes 8.7K. It's called the Fire Triangle and the three sides are Heat, Fuel and Oxygen. Brittany Perreault.
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How Fire Works The dangerous thing about the chemical reactions in fire is the fact that they are self-perpetuating. The heat of the flame itself keeps the fuel at the ignition temperature, so it continues to burn as long as there is fuel and oxygen around it.