Eli5 Why does fire burn in a visual spectrum for humans

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Basically the above. Building a great fire and the thought came up.

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Fire emits a lot of energy in form of photons, accualy most of them are infrared – > heat but small portion of them are in visible spectrum and some in ultra violet, our eyes see just a small part of all of emission from fire so it’s actually the other way around – burning things emit wide spectrum but we only see small part in visible spectrum

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