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What is The action of removing air or oxygen to put out a fire?
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Why might valuable documents be stored in pure nitrogen instead of in air?
Air contains Oxygen, which is a necessary ingredient for fire. Nitrogen forces Oxygen away, thus preventing fire. Lack of oxygen will also slow down other forms of oxidation, reducing the yellowing of the paper.
Can oxygen catch on fire?
No. Oxygen itself is not flammable; it supports the combustion of flammable materials. Fire is a chemical reaction between oxygen and a flammable material such as wood or gasoline. Things can burn on Earth because air is about 21% oxygen.
How does air help in burning?
When something burns, it needs oxygen to stay alight. There is oxygen in the air, and that lets a flame keep burning. If you were to put a glass over a flame, a candle for example, the fire would go out once it had used all of the oxygen inside and turned it into carbon dioxide.
What other factors besides air and water can change the color of a mineral?
Oxygen because when something hits oxygen it tends to rust so therefore it changes it's color.
Why fire needs oxygen?
A fire is nothing but a very fast chemical reaction where oxygen (or another oxidizer) combines chemically with the fuel to form an ash. If there is no oxygen, the chemical reaction cannot happen, so there is no fire.
How does water put out fire?
Fire needs oxygen from the air just like we do. When water gets poured on it, it suffocates and goes out.
What organ is responsible for removing oxygen from air?
The lungs remove oxygen from the air.
How does fire affect air?
Part of air is made up of oxygen without which fire can't happen. Air can feed a fire; it contains oxygen.
Why does fire need air?
Fire needs the oxygen in the air. Any other source of oxygen would also sustain fire.
What do fire extinguishers remove from the fire triangle?
It depends upon what kind of extinguisher it is. Water, for example, removes the heat from a fire by turning into steam and by removing available air/oxygen from the flames. Other extinguishers remove the oxygen from the fire or change the chemical reaction to stop the fire from converting the fuel to a flammable substance with the available heat.
What is a Source of oxygen for a fire?
the air
What is the source of oxygen for a fire?
the air
What is an oxygen fed-fire?
An oxygen-fed fire is a fire that has (most likely) pure oxygen fueling it. The air we breathe is composed of around 19% oxygen, therefore by adding more oxygen the fire will get hotter.
What gas in the air do you need to make fire?
Oxygen. It supports combustion.
Does fire need air to breathe?
Fire needs oxygen to burn.
What removes air out a room during a fire?
the reaction that makes fire is fueled by oxygen therefore as the fire burns the oxygen molecules are consumed
Why does flame require air to burn?
fire needs oxygen to burn, because fire is a chemical reaction that needs oxygen. the fire triangle is what fire needs to burn and is this- heat, fuel, and oxygen.
