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Fire Burning was created in 2008.
Water doesn't always make fire worse. If you get a candle light on fire and pour a bucket of water on it, it will stop burning. Fire can make the water evaporate if you pour too little water onto a blaze of fire. Technically, it depends on how much water you use.
Pouring water on a kerosene fire may cause splashes of hot/burning kerosene and water to splatter, due to the fact that kerosene is not miscible in water.
Keep the Fire Burning was created on 1994-01-01.
Fire has to have 3 things to keep burning: Fuel, Heat, Oxygen. Water works by cooling the temperatur and removing the Oxygen.
You never use water to put out a fat fire, because the pouring water on burning grease or oil will not extinguish the fire. It will only cause the burning oil to splash, spreading the grease fire around.
A spark is a small part of a burning substance thrown off by a fire. Sparks can also be generated by friction to start a fire.
Fire needs oxygen to continue burning. Water cuts of the supply of oxygen and hence the fire stops.
We do not throw water on a pan fire because of oil and water do not mix together. Oil will float on the surface of water and will leave the pan before the water. The fire is not burning the water. It's using the oil for combustion.
A liquid that was shot out of a siphon and ignited on impact with water or flame. It was mainly used in naval warfare for burning ships. It was also packed into small clay pot and then shot on a catapult or thrown off a wall.
This is due to the weight of the water on the fire and the difference of temperature. water is one of the few substances that cannot burn.
Thrown into the Fire was created on 2009-12-16.
Fire needs Oxygen gas to burn. The water pushes the Oxygen gas away from the fire, preventing it from burning.
Fire needs oxygen to burn. If you take away the oxygen there is nothing feeding the fire so it cannot carry on burning. Water has too little oxygen in it to feed the fire, and so it snuffs the flame, putting it out.
The fire is extinguished and some of the water is evaporated. Whatever new compounds may form depends on what is burning.
You cut off its oxygen supply, no fuel-no fire
An A- ordinary combustible materials, such as burning paper or wood.