if a flame needs oxygen to burn then why it doesn’t our atmosphere explode from a single flame?

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if a flame needs oxygen to burn then why it doesn’t our atmosphere explode from a single flame?

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Because a flame needs two things to burn:

Oxygen **and** fuel. And the rest of the stuff that’s in the air (mostly nitrogen) doesn’t work as fuel, so the air by itself can’t burn.