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Sodium Chloride is a crystal lattice and it is an ionic compound. It is a salt used in the ocean and when you burn the sodium chloride, the electrons on the compound gets excited and starts "jumping" from one energy level to another. This causes color change.

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Fire itself is not a substance and therefore can not react with anything. When strontium is introduced into a fire, the heat energy provided by the fire excites some of the electrons in the strontium atoms into a higher than normal energy state, and the return of the excited electrons to their ground states provided enough energy for the emission of a red-colored light.

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