how is oxygen combustible but not flammable? If it feeds the fire isn’t it essentially the same thing?

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how is oxygen combustible but not flammable? If it feeds the fire isn’t it essentially the same thing?

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Fire is a chemical reaction that happens when another element is combined with oxygen. If you just have a bunch of oxygen, there’s nothing to combine it with, and so there’s no chemical reaction, and no fire.

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