Which is worse fire or water?

It's not burning materials or air pollution that most often damages the environment during fires at waste plants but the thousands of litres of water used to douse the flames, explains Phil Collins.
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Is fire or water better?

Water is more effective than most other liquids at putting out fires due to its chemical properties, specifically its heat capacity and latent heat of vaporization. Heat capacity is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature by one Kelvin.
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Is water the most powerful element?

Many also say that water is the most important element of the elements, and also the most powerful element. Water is the element of reconciliation, they are said to be able to wash away all the bad, the most disgusting.
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What is the deadliest element?

Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element.
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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. In fact their clothes, shoes, gloves, helmets etc.
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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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Which is more powerful ice or fire?

Between -10% and -20% C, the tensile strength of ice is generally between 0.7 and 3.1 MPa (pascals are a measure of pressure). The flame of a fire is composed of hot gas which, if hot enough, may be ionized to plasma. It has a tensile strength of 0. In conclusion, ice is stronger than flame.
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Does fire beat lightning?

But in rare cases, lightning beats ice (it's just water) and is beaten by fire because heat increases resistance to electricity (at least in metals; in air, heat decreases resistance, so fire will make lightning stronger...?).
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Can fire overpower water?

Water is Fire's direct opposite of the element. While Fire is weak against water, it's possible to for Fire to overpower Water with enough heat. Skilled Fire Magi can evaporate water if the flames are hot enough.
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Is water stronger than air?

Actually, water pressure is generally stronger than air pressure.
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Why does fire hurt?

It's basically adrenaline. Your body goes into a certain amount of shock. Once the burn becomes severe, it's burned down to the nerves so you don't initially have any sensation in those burned areas. Then the adrenaline kicks in.
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Can the ocean catch on fire?

For all the oceans to catch fire, they would need to be entirely covered in oil. 71% of the Earth's surface is oceans. So we'd need a lot of oil. And it couldn't be a thin layer.
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Can fire burn underwater?

With careful application, a sustained fire can be created even underwater. Plasma cutting is a procedure for underwater burning in Baltimore that cuts electrically conductive materials. It's a method suitable for different types of metals including steel, aluminum, copper, and more.
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Do eyes melt in fire?

First of all, staring into a fire for two to three minutes would not allow the contact lens to reach its melting point unless the person was actually in the fire, at which point they would experience severe life-threatening burns to the body and eyes.
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Is there a cold fire?

A cool flame or invisible flame is a flame having maximal temperature below about 400 °C (752 °F). It is usually produced in a chemical reaction of a certain fuel-air mixture. Contrary to conventional flame, the reaction is not vigorous and releases very little heat, light, and carbon dioxide.
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Do diamonds burn?

Although diamond requires a higher temperature to burn, it does indeed burn via normal carbon combustion. You can even burn diamond in a regular flame if you are patient and conditions are right. To accelerate the burning of diamond, you can give it more heat and more oxygen.
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Why is Blue fire the hottest?

Blue flames usually appear at a temperature between 2,600º F and 3,000º F. Blue flames have more oxygen and get hotter because gases burn hotter than organic materials, such as wood. When natural gas is ignited in a stove burner, the gases quickly burn at a very high temperature, yielding mainly blue flames.
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Can the ocean freeze?

Ocean water freezes just like freshwater, but at lower temperatures. Fresh water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit but seawater freezes at about 28.4 degrees Fahrenheit , because of the salt in it. When seawater freezes, however, the ice contains very little salt because only the water part freezes.
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Who set the ocean on fire?

The incident happened when an oil pipeline connected to Pemex's Ku-Maloob-Zaap offshore platform complex ruptured, Mexican-state-owned petroleum company Petróleos Mexicanos, also known as Pemex, said. As authorities were alerted, three boats were seen in action putting out the flames.
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Does blood burn in fire?

Can Blood Catch On Fire? The short answer is 'no'. Of course, blood is not flammable. This is due to 60% of the liquid substance being made up of plasma, of which a huge portion is made up of water (around 92%).
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Can fire heal you?

Healing with fire received very little attention from scientific journals, as some long-term studies have explained the theory of fire healing, also known as cupping, as the generation of pressure on parts of the patient's body by burning oxygen inside a small vessel; the studies have indicated that the claims about ...
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Does touching fire hurt?

Because of their high degree of flammability, gases like butane and methane burn extremely hot. Injury may result if any part of your skin not covered by the liquid solution is allowed to come into contact with the fire. For maximum protection, consider wearing rubber laboratory gloves when lighting your hands.
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Does fire beat air?

Air beats Fire, which also makes sense. Air puts out Fire. Wood beats Water, which makes sense. Trees absorbs Water.
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What is the strongest elemental power?

Congratulations, your elemental power is void! Void represents infinity, reason, and all of reality itself. As the rarest and most powerful elemental power in all of existence, void reflects your ability to see the truth of reality and your ability to understand all meanings.
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