how is oxygen combustible but not flammable? If it feeds the fire isn’t it essentially the same thing?
In: Chemistry
The common definition of flammable means “will readily burn in the presence of oxygen, if you get it hot enough”.
Oxygen isn’t flammable because it doesn’t burn in the presence of… itself. It’s not flammable, it’s the stuff that *makes everything else* flammable.
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