eli5 why do fuses for explosives stay lit underwater?

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I’ve seen videos of people throwing firecrackers and dynamite and things like that into water and they still explode, but how do the fuses stay lit?

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as a nieve person my answer would be:

things burn (combust) only because of three things

1) heat sufficent to start

2) fuel
3) presence of oxygen

remove one and it goes out

water will displace the o2 so then the fuse must provide its own o2 by some means.

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