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aidenn0
on March 24, 2022
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What’s a fire and why does it burn? (2016)
Depending on your definition of "burn" the noble gases might not qualify; they'll form stable compounds with fluorine as the oxidant but not oxygen
willis936
on March 24, 2022
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If burning requires breaking chemical bonds: loads of substances don't burn. If burning is the act of ionizing, then everything burns.
Humans like to put things in neat boxes, but nature doesn't really care about our boxes.
aidenn0
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Burning certainly does not require breaking chemical bonds (or else Hydrogen is not flammable). I always considered burning to be oxidation; possibly only when oxygen is the oxidizing agent.
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