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__//**COMBUSTION**//__

Combustion is sort of like burning something. It is very complex yet many people know combustion more than a lot of other chemical reactions. Combustion is a complex sequence of exothermic chemical reactions between a fuel and an oxidant with the help from the making of heat or heat AND light in the form of a glow, mostly known as a flame. Direct combustion is the most known form of combustion. When combustion occurs, it is usually not pretty. You can probably already guess that combustion is one of the main ingredients in a war. There are many different forms of combustion including rapid, slow, complete, turbulent, incomplete, and smoldering. Rapid combustion is when there are mass amounts of heat and light being seen and released which usually creates a fire. Rapid combustion is in most cases the more common form of combustion used in weaponry. In most cases, rapid combustion turns into something called an "explosion" which everyone hears about. Slow combustion is rare and takes place in low temperature climates. Complete combustion is one of the most rare forms of combustions for it is almost impossible to achieve. The process in complete combustion is basically a reaction that happens. While the reaction is going on, the minor components in this process yield the major components which is the thing that completes the entire combustion process. Turbulent combustion is exactly what it sounds like. It happens very fast and very sudden sort of how nitroglycerin works. Both are very unstable. Turbulent combustion is the most common form of combustion used in machinery for industrial applications. Incomplete combustion is also exactly what it sounds like. It doesn't quite complete itself. It occurs when there is not enough oxygen being put into the reaction. Unlike complete combustion, incomplete combustion yields for the minor components which creates a very unstable atmosphere. To complete the combustion reaction, you need the major components more than you need the minor ones which is not happening in incomplete combustion making it an incomplete reaction. Unlike almost all of the different forms of combustion, smoldering combustion doesn't result in any form of a flame at all. This makes the reaction heterogeneous. Unlike a combustion form WITH a flame which has the reaction occur inside the environment, smoldering combustion happens on top of the environment. Smoldering combustion is one of the most significant forms of combustion that there are out there. This form of combustion spreads more easily than most of the different forms. The vapor that burns off of a flame from fuel of any kind occurs because of combustion. Combustion is sometimes based on the act of being caught on fire at a certain point called the "flash point." The act of combustion consists of three relatively distinct but overlapping phases which are: Preheating phase, Distillation phase (or gaseous phases), and Charcoa phase (or solid phase). Preheated phase is when the unburned fuel is heated up to its flash point and then goes on to being heated up to it's fire point. This can also be called dry distillation. The distillation phase is where the mix of evolved flammable gases with oxygen is ignited. From this, energy is made from heat and light together. During this process, flames are usually visible. This is mainly where the vapors from the flames come from. Last but not least, the charcoal phase is when the output of flammable gases from the material is too low for persistent presence of flame and the charred fuel foes not burn rapidly (like in rapid combustion) anymore but just glows and later only smolders. Behind combustion is a whole mechanism that nobody comes to realize until faced with it meaning many people see combustion happening yet they never understand what it is that is happening in the process.