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A combustible substance will burn easily when on fire,

A flammable substance can easily catch fire.

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What burns a substance in the presence of oxygen?

combustion


What is it called when a substance burns in oxygen?

When a substance burns in oxygen, it is called combustion. It is a chemical reaction that produces heat and light, usually accompanied by the release of carbon dioxide and water vapor.


What colorless gas burns with oxygen?

Hydrogen is a colorless gas that burns with oxygen. If substances will burn in air, those same substance will burn better in oxygen.


What substance will the carbon in methane change into when it burns in oxygen?

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When a substance burns it reacts with a gas called?

Oxygen is the gas most commonly associated with burning.


What substance burns in oxygen to give us energy?

The substance that burns in oxygen to provide us with energy is glucose. During cellular respiration, glucose is broken down in the presence of oxygen to produce ATP, which is the primary energy source for our cells.


What is the word for burning away of a substance?

Combustion is the process in which a substance burns and reacts with oxygen, resulting in the release of heat and light energy.


What substances burn faster in oxygen?

Any substance that burns in air is likely to burn faster in pure oxygen, if all other conditions are equal.


When a substance is combined with oxygen the substance is?

Often it's an oxide. For example, carbon burns in air to form its oxides, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. However, there are other possibilities. Hydrogen burns in oxygen to produce water.


Is oxygen a burning gas?

Oxygen, when mixed with a combustible substance, or gas and enough heat, will cause combustion, and is a gas. So it is indeed, a gas that burns.


If Hydrogen is combustible substance and oxygen is also combustible substance but the product water is non combustible substance Why?

When hydrogen burns, it is combining with oxygen. Once it has combined to form water, the molecule does not want to readily accept more oxygen atoms. Fire is rapid oxidation, so if it is already oxidized, it is done.


What substance is formed when magnesium burns in air?

When magnesium burns in air, it forms magnesium oxide (MgO). This is a white powder that is a result of the reaction between magnesium and oxygen.