Does fire create water?

In complete combustion, the burning fuel will produce only water and carbon dioxide (no smoke or other products).
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Does fire produce water vapor?

When hydrogen bonds with oxygen, it produces water vapor — even as the wood burns. Fires burn only when all that atomic shuffling releases enough energy to keep the oxidation going in a sustained chain reaction.
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Is fire a water liquid or gas?

Most flames are made of hot gas, but some burn so hot they become plasma. The nature of a flame depends on what is being burnt. A candle flame will primarily be a mixture of hot gases (air and vaporised paraffin wax).
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Does smoke contain water?

Smoke is made up small particles, gases and water vapor. Water vapor makes up the majority of smoke. The remainder includes carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide, irritant volatile organic compounds, air toxics and very small particles.
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Does fire give off steam?

Quite a lot of the smoke from a fire is actually steam. All the water in the plant gets evaporated by the heat of the flames, and goes up in the smoke as water vapour. Once the water is gone then the leaves and the stems of the plants burn, and turn into a gas called carbon dioxide.
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Is smoke a water vapor?

Smoke is a mix of gases (including carbon dioxide and water vapour) and tiny particles (called soot) produced by burning wood, leaves, dried plant material, coal, and liquid fuels such as diesel, kerosene or petrol.
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What is fire made of?

Oxygen, heat, and fuel are frequently referred to as the "fire triangle." Add in the fourth element, the chemical reaction, and you actually have a fire "tetrahedron." The important thing to remember is: take any of these four things away, and you will not have a fire or the fire will be extinguished.
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Is fire a fluid?

Fire doesn't fall into liquid, because it doesn't have a fixed volume. Fire doesn't fall into solid, because it doesn't have a fixed shape. Thus, fire is currently considered a plasma.
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What is water made of?

A water molecule has three atoms: two hydrogen (H) atoms and one oxygen (O) atom. That's why water is sometimes referred to as H2O. A single drop of water contains billions of water molecules.
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What can fire not burn?

Wherever any substance is put in fire it burns and changes into ash. But asbestos is one such material that does not burn in fire. That is why the fireman wear clothes made from asbestos when they enter the burning house.
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Does water stop fire?

Water cools and smothers the fire at the same time. It cools it so much that it can't burn anymore, and it smothers it so that it can't make any more of the oxygen in the air explode. You can also put out a fire by smothering it with dirt, sand, or any other covering that cuts the fire off from its oxygen source.
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Can you set fire to water?

Can You Ever Set Water On Fire? You cannot set water on fire. It is true, that you could heat water up enough so that it broke down into hydrogen and oxygen again. And it is true, that the hydrogen produced would happily burn with oxygen.
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What does a fire produce?

Fire is a chemical reaction that converts a fuel and oxygen into carbon dioxide and water. It is an exothermic reaction, in other words, one that produces heat.
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Can a fire start without oxygen?

A fire cannot burn without oxygen. You can show this for yourself, in fact: if you light a small candle and then put a clear glass upside-down over that candle (without touching the flame), you can watch the flame slowly extinguish as it uses up all of the oxygen that you have trapped around it with the glass.
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What is burning without oxygen called?

Pyrolysis, which is also the first step in gasification and combustion, occurs in the absence or near absence of oxygen, and it is thus distinct from combustion (burning), which can take place only if sufficient oxygen is present.
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Is fire solid or liquid?

Fire is a plasma, not a gas or a solid. It's a kind of transient state between being composed of the elements prior to ignition and the spent fumes (Smoke - solid particles and Gasses = Gas molecules.)
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Is all fire plasma?

The bottom line is that a flame only becomes a plasma if it gets hot enough. Flames at lower temperatures do not contain enough ionization to become a plasma. On the other hand, a higher-temperature flame does indeed contain enough freed electrons and ions to act as a plasma.
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Is there 5 states of matter?

There are four natural states of matter: Solids, liquids, gases and plasma. The fifth state is the man-made Bose-Einstein condensates.
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Who created the first fire?

Claims for the earliest definitive evidence of control of fire by a member of Homo range from 1.7 to 2.0 million years ago (Mya). Evidence for the "microscopic traces of wood ash" as controlled use of fire by Homo erectus, beginning roughly 1 million years ago, has wide scholarly support.
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Is the sun made of fire?

The Sun isn't "made of fire". It's made mostly of hydrogen and helium. Its heat and light come from nuclear fusion, a very different process that doesn't require oxygen.
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Is fire man made?

Nearly 85 percent* of wildland fires in the United States are caused by humans. Human-caused fires result from campfires left unattended, the burning of debris, equipment use and malfunctions, negligently discarded cigarettes, and intentional acts of arson. Lightning is one of the two natural causes of fires.
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Can vaping water hurt you?

When you vape water, the hot steam tends to condense in your mouth. It can burn the lips, tongue and pharynx. But by the time it reaches the lungs, the vapour turns to body temperature doing little to no harm.
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Is it OK to inhale water vapor?

Steam inhalation is considered a safe home remedy if done right, but it's very possible to hurt yourself unintentionally if you're not careful. There's a risk of scalding yourself if you make contact with the hot water.
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What does smoke turn into?

Although smoke can contain hundreds of different chemicals and fumes, visible smoke is mostly carbon (soot), tar, oils and ash. Smoke occurs when there is incomplete combustion (not enough oxygen to burn the fuel completely). In complete combustion, everything is burned, producing just water and carbon dioxide.
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