What role does oxygen play in burning?

Answer 1

NO it does not. Oxygen is one of the 3 elements required to make fire, the others are heat and fuel, Oxygen on it's own will not burn but add the other two elements and you have fire.

Answer 2

Oxygen is essential for burning as it acts as the oxidizing agent that allows the fuel to combine with oxygen and release energy in the form of heat and light. This process is known as combustion. Without oxygen, the burning process cannot occur.

Answer 3

No It Doesnt

Answer

Oxygen is one of the 3 elements required to make fire, the others are heat and fuel, Oxygen on it's own will not burnbut add the other two elements and you have fire.

- Burning is a chemical reaction where Oxygen (O) is combined with the fuel. O will not burn, because you cannot combine O with O.

Answer 4

No. Without getting into a complicated chemistry lesson, there are fuels and oxidizers. A fuel cannot burn without an oxidizer, so it helps in the burning process, but alone neither oxygen nor a fuel can burn.

Answer 5

Oxygen doesn't actually get 'burnt', per se; it's merely the vehicle for burning something else. If you had a room that was 100% full of oxygen and you lit a match in it, nothing would happen, because there's no fuel to burn. Oxygen is just necessary to take part in the reaction of 'combustion'. When methane burns for instance, we get the following equation:

CH4 + 3O2 -> 2H2O + CO2

or, methane plus oxygen burns to form water and carbon dioxide. All materials that burn have a similar formula to the above, usually having water, carbon dioxide and other materials as the product of combustion. In short, without fuel, there is nothing to burn, but without oxygen, there's nothing to react with the fuel to make it burn. Hope this helps ;)

From Dr Octavian.

Answer 6

No, oxygen supports combustion of other materials.

Fire is the rapid combination of flammable materials with oxygen. When the two materials combine, heat is released.

Take a chemistry class to learn more about oxidization of materials and how oxygen is involved in the process.

Answer 7

Oxygen does not burn. It supports the combustion of flammable substances.

Answer 8

You can't burn oxygen in any conventional sense - conventionally burning means oxidation.

Answer 9

YES,,,,,,,,,,,,,,oxygen is one of the main part

HOPE THIS HELPYOU :]

Answer 10

Burning would be impossible without oxygen. When a substance burns, it combines with oxygen. This process releases energy.