I understand there are 4 states of matter. Solid, liquid, gaseous, and plasma.
So my question is: in what state is fire???
I’ve done some googling, and apparently this question is a little hard to answer. It takes on some properties from three states, but is technically none of them.
Please someone put me out of my misery and educate this poor stupid human.
In: Chemistry
The common states of matter are states in which you can have bunches of atoms of things from the periodic table, i.e. “stuff”.
Fire isn’t made of atoms. It’s the light given off from energetic chemical reactions. It looks like a gas because it tends to be above something that’s burning, which is itself usually at least turning into a gas, but really it’s just electrons with extra energy that they’re dumping as photons of the right wavelength to carry that energy.
It’s like asking the state of matter of sunlight. It doesn’t really belong in those categories.
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