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== =Combustion=

Combustion is in my opinion the most important and recognizable chemical reaction to any person on this earth. Combustion is fire, it is heat, and subsequently light. There are many ways to visually see a combustion reaction, smoke, water vapor, or heat.

All previous reactions have been defined by random variables swapping or combining positions. However Combustion is different. The only thing that sperates it from the others is that in a combustion reaction H20 and/or CO2 is released. Heat is as well, but lets leave that out of the chemical reaction.

a basic equation for this would be ?? + ?? --> H2O and/or CO2 and/or ??

to identify a combustion reaction, just look for H2O or CO2 in the products side of the equation.

Whats an equation with H2O in the products side...


 * Hydrogen** //and// **oxygen** __reacting to form__ **hydrogen oxide**!

2H2 + O2 --> 2H20 yes, our old friend is actually a combustion reaction.

Now, since we have already balanced it lets go to general about Combustion. Combustion is very important. without it the universe would not have heat, its and we wouldn't have fire. There is a triangle that combustion requires and without one piece of it the reaction ends. That is why we smother a fire with a rag, to cut off the oxygen. Stomping on it also pushes a pressure wave towards to fire and cuts the fire from oxygen, and so that also puts out a fire. Heat is produced from the reaction very quickly, so once you have heat your not going to run out of it unless you run out of fuel or oxygen.

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