Is Fire a gas or a liquid?

>>8904399
When you burn wood, it vaporizes from the surface. The vaporized wood particles then react with oxygen, forming CO2 and steam. So it is gas.

>>8904399
>are you ready for the worst day ever on the stock market, /biz/?

>>8904399
plazma

>>8904399
It's God's punishment in all its glory.
It cleans the bone of flesh and washes the soul of sin.

>>8904399
Fire, the visible part anyway and what you probably define as fire, is just gas so hot that it radiates visible light.

There is, of course, some ash in the mix.
And some of the water vapor does become liquid once sufficiently cool - that is when the water becomes visible as white smoke.

However, when we remove the pointless nitpicking, fire can definitely be considered a gas.

>>8904399
Gas that is hot enough to be incandescent.

>>8904528
So fire is basically water, that's so hot, it burns?

>>8904582
I think you're thinking of boiling water there, friend.

>>8904399
Fire is a process that matter can undergo(rapid oxidation), not the matter itself.
Gas/liquid are states of matter.

You might as well ask if freezing is a solid or liquid.

But if you are asking if we need a gas or liquid to create fire, then i would say either is fine, along with plasma, solid alkali substances that spontaneously combust/solid explosives etc.
See liquid oxygen, the sun, plasma, anything else that redox occurs in rapidly.

TL;DR
Fire is what happens when electrons move quickly enough to release heat and light

>>8904399
Neither. It's a visual effect caused by the relative high temperature of the area and it surroundings.

>>8904937
Burning is the process.
Fire is an object.

>>8904399
Its the original sin of the log being banished by our Lord and savior

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Is fire a particle or a wave?

>>8905797
How much does fire weigh

>>8906100
it is a septum

>>8904399
Neither, it is escaping phlogiston.

>>8904582
No, fire is "basically" exactly what they already said. Where the fuck did you get that fire is a liquid?

The visible part is black body radiation from soot particles. So fire is a solid.

>>8905797
>Fire is an object
You are trolling right?

>>8904528
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame

The visible part has a name you probably knew. Fire = rapid exothermic oxidation; flame is just caused by it sometimes

gas or plasma depending on the temp, assuming atmospheric pressure

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>>8906343
A septim?

>>8904399
plas·ma
ˈplazmə/
noun

an ionized gas consisting of positive ions and free electrons in proportions resulting in more or less no overall electric charge, typically at low pressures (as in the upper atmosphere and in fluorescent lamps) or at very high temperatures (as in stars and nuclear fusion reactors).

Fire is plasma, discussion over.

>>8908863
a flame may or may not be hot enough to transition to a plasma.
also you have to define what you consider a plasma. do you consider partially ionized flames, or only those that are fully ionized?
this isn't a race war, not everything is so black and white

>>8908863
if fire is plasma then a flamethrower is a plasma rifle?

>>8908870
so fire is a gaseous plasma then? Would lava be a liquid plasma, or would there even be a solid,liquid, and gas form of plasma?

>>8904433
>>8904399
The visable part of fire, or at the orange part of it, is incandescent carbon soot... so fire is a solid that has been aerosolized.

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>>8904399
Disappointed by the responses.

>Fire is how we see combustion

>Combustion is a process.

>Energy is released as heat, gases and some burnt solids.

Pls don't try and classify combustion processes as a state of matter.

it's plazma.

also, this:
>>8904503

Fire is a chemical reaction that occurs in a mixture of incandescent gases. So, fire, in and of itself, is not a state of matter. Rather, it is an oxidising chemical reaction.

>>8910204
Combustion is the process that results in the products of the combustion reaction, and the product is fire.

Come on, man. Fire is clearly a thing.

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>this thread

>>8904399
fire is radiation. ya'll /out/ gonna get cancer

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Fire is a spectrum.

fire is a non-equilibrium state: burning

>>8904399

Fire isn't a state of matter. It is a chemical reaction...