Eli5: If fire is not plasma, what is it?

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Just read somewhere that fire is unique to earth, I don’t understand

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Fire is basically a combination of very hot solid particles, gasses, and vapours produced by a chemical reaction called oxidation. At least, that’s what the flame, the visible part of fire, is. I believe that sufficiently hot fires can produce plasma but those aren’t the kinds of fires most people deal with on a day to day basis.

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