If you pulled out the smoke from a fire, would it burn hotter?

Question

If you pulled out the smoke from a fire, would it burn hotter?

In: Physics

Answer 1

That’s a tricky question. In the smoke there is hydrogen which helps fuel a fire, say in a room. Halon fire extinguishers used to bond with this gas removing it from being used as a fuel. And the fire would go down considerably. A revolution in fire fighting. But we had to get rid of them. Before the big “global warming” scare there was the the “hole in the ozone” scare. so we lost it.