Eli5: What are you seeing when you look at fire? Not the logs, but the part up high that’s emitting light?
In: Chemistry
Oxygen is electro negative, and is violently stealing electrons from the fuel.
Im a firefighter and have been trying to figure out what the actual flame is for forever. It’s tough to understand and I don’t have it all figured out.
Btw the “glow” everything has isn’t the flame. As people have said, the glow on logs or something is that heat that everything has entering into the visible spectrum, but the flame is different i think. Though I could be wrong.
Btw, did you know the flame of a candle is hollow?
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