Why does sand put fire out?

Answer 1

The sand absorbs the heat around it and it stays that way.

sand is made from giant covalent bond, they are made of carbon atom which create the world strongest chemical bond. to break this bond you need lots of energy as in heat. so it means that the can got to a high temperature with out turning into a liquid. but sand is always under the sun therefore it just keeps on collecting the heat energy becoming warm.

Answer 2

Provided you put enough sand on the fire to keep oxygen from reaching the source of combustion, it would extinguish the flames. However, for all but the smallest of fires, this would take an enormous amount of sand that would likely not be available in most situations.

If you had an extremely hot fire, there is the potential the heat would be sufficient to melt the sand into glass.

Answer 3

Sand is completely nonflammable, relatively inexpensive and abundant, and can be used to smother a fire, even if the fire involves oil, which cannot be smothered by water since oil floats on water and continues to burn.

Answer 4

Sand can extinguish fires because it starves the fire of oxygen. When sand is poured over a fire, it smothers the flames by covering them and blocking the oxygen supply needed for the fire to keep burning. Sand's high heat capacity also helps to absorb the heat energy from the fire, further helping to extinguish it.

Answer 5

Sand smothers a fire and puts it out. This is a universal way to put out a fire outside. Most people will have a bucket of sand available to douse on a fire when done.

Answer 6

silica a.k.a sand(SiO2) has no special chemical to stop the fire all it does is simply block off access to air and therefore there is no fuel for the fire.

Answer 7

It depletes the oxygen resource around the flame that the flame needs to keep going.

Answer 8

Sand smothers a fire, blocking the fire's access to the oxygen it needs to keep burning.

Answer 9

yah..... It can. I don't know how though.