the state of fire.

Question

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

Answer 1

Fire itself is not a state but a process. The flame however is mostly plasma with the colder areas of the flame being a gas. A lot of experiments involving plasma actually uses a flame as it is one of the easiest way to create plasma.