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No, it's not.
it is a chemical reaction (this part is true)
Short_answer:">Short_answer:">Short answer:Yes, fire is plasma.
Plasma is the fourth state of matter. It is also the coolest state of matter (this is not scientific fact). Sadly many science textbooks are outdated and do not represent the current known states of matter. The Known states of matter are solid, liquid, gas, plasma, and Bose-Einstein Condensates (the total absence of energy in matter). Plasma is simply the exchange of electrons between atoms.
Detailed_answer:">Detailed_answer:">Detailed answer:Fire is a reaction between atoms/molecules, in which the valence electrons are exchanged. The amount of energy released in this exchange is quite large. As Oxygen molecules (O2) given enough energy will take/share electrons from most nearby atoms/molecules in order to complete its first full valence orbital. The amount of energy that Oxygen expends is so great it excites its own valence electrons so much that they, escape the strong pull of the positive nucleus and, fly away from the Oxygen atom. When these electrons fly away from the Oxygen atom they lose energy as photons and or heat. The electrons lose energy and can no longer escape the strong pull of the Oxygen atom and are pulled back into the valence orbital. The Oxygen atom then gains more and more energy until its valence electrons fly off again, and after losing energy they are pulled back into the valence orbital of the oxygen atom. [Please note: oxygen is not required to produce plasma]This reaction creates a kind gaseous soupy mixture of both positively and negatively charged particles, known as plasma. The bright glow emitted from fire and plasma is the electrons flying off and releasing their energy as photons.
Plasma can be found everywhere in neon signs, plasma screen TVs it is fire, florescent tubes, lightning (or any form arcing electricity), the Aura Borealis, it composes every star in the universe (with the exception of neutron stars) making it the most common state of matter in the universe, and in you. Plasma is essential to human life without it the chemical reactions that keep us alive and warm would cease. Plasma is simply the exchange of electrons between atoms.
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What state is fire?
fire is the state of plasma
What is the phase change from plasma to a gas?
The phase change from a plasma to a gas is called recombination.
Why is plasma in lighting?
Plasma is not in lightning, but rather lightning is plasma. Plasma is a state of matter, just like a solid, liquid, or gas. Plasma is a gas-like state made of very hot charged particles. The gases in the air are briefly converted to plasma then back to gas just like melting and refreezing ice.
Is carbon a solid liquid gas or plasma?
Carbon is a solid most of the time, but can be made into a liquid, gas, or plasma.
Is gel state of matter?
The normally accepted states of matter are solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Or as the ancients said, earth, water, air and fire.
Is fire a solid a liquid a gas or a plasma?
Fire is a gas.
What is fire a solid liquid or gas or neither?
fire is a thing called plasma, which is like a gas but the electrons are free, or something like that examples of plasma are: aurora, lightning, fire :)
Is lightning a solid liquid or a gas?
Well actually the answer is Plasma. Plasma is lightning, Aurora Borealis, and fire are plasmas. Plasma's are particles that have broken apart. They form when high energy plasma go into the atmosphere.
Give the example for plasma state of matter on earth?
Plasma are gases heated up. Such as lightning, magma, core, northern lights, and fire. Actually Fire is an example of gas idiot.
What is ionized gas?
Ionized gas is plasma which is the fourth state of matter. Plasma is a state of matter that starts as a gas and then becomes ionized. Ionizing is where it converts an atom of gas into an ion or ions by removing one or more of the electrons. Also plasma is in fire not gas.
How does a gas react in response to being heated up?
It will ignite into plasma (fire)
What substance on earth is not a liquid solid or gas?
Fire. It is a plasma and could be any of the 3.
How many states of matter exsit?
People will tell you there are 3 :Solid Liquid and gas, but there is a fourth, which is plasma. plasma is pretty much hot fire.
Is fire made from gas?
Fire itself is a process rather than a substance. The flame itself is a mixiture of hot gas (some of it plasma) and and usually some tiny solid particles.
Is carbon dioxide made of matter?
Yes because the four (yes four) stages of matter are solid, liquid, gas, and plasma and carbon dioxide is mostly in the form of a gas but also can be solid or liquid but not plasma, plasma is more like fire or lava.
Why isn't fire one of the states of matter?
Fire is classified under one of the states of matter. It belongs to a more uncommon state of matter --- plasma. Plasma is ionized gas where electrons are removed from the atom through ionization. There are natural and man-made plasma. Natural plasma includes fire, lightning and the Sun. The whole universe is mostly made up of plasma. Man-made plasma include fluorescent light tubes.
Why always gas can change into plasma?
because the plasma is gas
