Eli5: a question about fire

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When fire is created. In which like methane and oxygen molecules in a burner they move around and when he give them a spark they gain energy and move faster and break apart. And hit each other and loose energy in friction and sound, but what is this saying that they create more energy than the energy required to start the reaction. I really don’t understand that

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You have to pay $5 for the gas to drive to work. You work 8 hours and get paid $100.

There’s an initial fee that you get back afterwards. The initial fee is energy to break apart the molecules, but once they’re broken they’ll snap back together and release way more energy in the process.

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