I want to know whats the state of fire?

@beloved (354)
India
December 24, 2006 9:43pm CST
As you aware that everything in this world is either solid,liquid or gas. but what is the state of "Fire".
3 responses
thundercat
@thundercat (505)
• United States
25 Dec 06
Fire is not a state. Its a chemical reaction that emits heat and other types of electromagnetic light such as visible light and ultraviolet. The heat being in the infrared area of the spectrum. It reacts with the air around it which is why it appears to have a volume above the material. To define it more precisely physically, it is an exothermic chemical reaction.
thundercat
@thundercat (505)
• United States
25 Dec 06
Oh and just a note, there are 4 states of matter, liquid, solid, gas, and plasma. Plasma is basically a sea of charges. Metals behave like plasmas when subjected to radiation at very high frequencies.
msqtech
@msqtech (15073)
• United States
3 Jan 07
that is exactly it and different fires have different needs
msqtech
@msqtech (15073)
• United States
3 Jan 07
I would say it is a transformative because it can burn any state and change it into another state of being
SageMother
@SageMother (2277)
• United States
25 Dec 06
Fire is a living, breathing, consuming creature. Its behaviour is altered by what it feeds on, it seeks more to consume if left unchecked. It has its own rules and goals and can team up with members like itself to cocnsume more.