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Why does fire need oxygen to burn?
Question Date: 2005-10-23
Answer 1:

Fire needs oxygen because when we burn a material we actually induce a reaction of the material with oxygen. The energy that is released by this chemical reaction produces what we call fire. So the fire is the side product of the reaction with oxygen.



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