Is fire a solid, a liquid, or a gas? - Elizabeth Cox

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Sitting around a campfire, you can feel its heat, smell the woody smoke, and hear it crackle. If you get too close, it burns your eyes and stings your nostrils. You could stare at the bright flames forever as they twist and flicker in endless incarnations… But what exactly are you looking at? Elizabeth Cox illuminates the science behind fire.
Lesson by Elizabeth Cox, directed by Héloïse Dorsan Rachet.
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"What exactly is fire?" I know! It's a plasma! "A common misconception is that fire is a plasma" ....ah

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Fire is common

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That’s exactly what I concluded before being told that

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Fire is a fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Not really my guess was photons and chemicals. Don’t know if I am right (Still watching video) Edit: Fire is a feeling.. apparently.

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Same here

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If only the fire nation was as peaceful as this video

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Zuko changed that. For at least a bit.

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When I was maybe 4 or 5, I touched the flames on the stove thinking: "they're blue, so they must be cold!" I was wrong.

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Though the same but that made me think that red fire was even hotter, since blue can make the food hot.

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TedEd: Even the biggest fires will run out of fuel. Sun: *nervous burning*

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Sun: *existential crisis;engage*

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Sun: *Nervous fusion

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Stars: nevermind, we born again.

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Sun is not fire

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Well, at the end, the Sun will run out of fuel. Won't last forever.

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Just saw title and i thought, Seriously I have never thought about this question. Thanks TED-Ed

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Fire: exists TED : physically you don’t

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Now this, is epic

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Technically, energy is classified as physically existing

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He said that when fire burns out it was like it never was there but technically it was never there so I don’t think he can has nkow how of the speakings

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Dear scientists It is okay to say "we don't know yet" from time to time. Thank you

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The explanation was really good, very simple to understand especially with the lovely animations. The background music and the campfire sounds combined with that amazing voice of Addison Anderson just makes it so relaxing to watch. This is why I love TED-Ed.

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It doesn't explain why there's a (apparent) hard edge to them though. By how they explained it, if I never saw a flame, I would've imagined something that glows at the base, and gradually becomes fainter towards the top, with no definable hard edge.

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Although now that I thought about it a bit, the answer might be: because the airborne fuel burns at almost constant rate from the base while moving (roughly) up, and then immediately get expended at some point (hence the cut off). The continuous shape comes from the fact that neighboring fuel particles get expended at roughly the same time as the ones in their immediate vicinity.

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"Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice." -- *Robert Frost.*

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"The hottest flames are white or blue" Now i get it, Azula was flexing at everyone else by showing how strong her fire was XD

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Who that random person who I don’t know what that azula char is

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Thanks I’m into physics science and biology more than shows I guess so I had no clue

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I just did don’t remember names though also it’s movie so I not saw blue fire

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so fire isn't a thing, it's a thing happening. Thank you for being so clear ;)

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that STILL doesn't make sense

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it's a process** for people not connecting the ideas like colour perception -- how each of us see one pigment is different than the next because of *how* our rods and cones work

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I remember back when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade and my teacher taught my class about the states of matter, I asked him what state fire was in. He said that it was an incandescent body. Then, in 7th grade I asked my chemistry teacher the same thing, and she said it depends on what's burning. At this point I kind of gave up and accepted that fire is simply energy, although I couldn't figure out what made it act and look like it does. Now, three years later, I finally got my answer. My point is, when everyone in your life seems to lack an answer, Ted-Ed is the place to go!

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So what exactly is it, now that you understand ?

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I asked the same to my chemistry teacher while I was in around 7th grade and came to the conclusion that it is just energy myself too..

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Same happend with me

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When will I change?

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I still don't understand. what is it exactly? Help

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Tldw: fire isn't a state of matter, it's just an ongoing chemical reaction, like when you put baking soda in vinegar. It is basically this: Combustion: start of fire Burning: the fire exists Extinguish: the fire ends.

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Fire is energy in a visible form 💥

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What's the song's name?

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Wow buddy! Chill! Don't need to be so excited.. 😅 Well, i agree! It is calming..

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The animations did warm me up. So fire is in other words spicy air?

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Quahntasy - Animating Universe well calling it spicy air would imply that it is matter.

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Kate The ‘Animator’ i fear that will extinguish the matter, that is, fire.

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When i was a kid, i wanted to become a scientist and finally discover what fire is. I guess i won't haha. Still a scientist btw

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I remember asking my science teacher the same question when I was nine. I didn’t receive a satisfactory answer. She literally said that fire was a semi fluid. Later (like maybe after two years) I did a little research, and the answers I found made sense but were not exactly what I was looking for. This video helped me properly understand. I am SOOOOOO happy right now, it is literally one of the best days of my life... The feeling when you finally get the answer you were looking for so hard is one of the best feelings in your life. Love you 😍 ted Ed. Keep spreading knowledge. I am 14 now BTW

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Really the answer is much debated, even this video isn't the clearest answer. We used to think it was a plasma, and sometimes it can be, but it's mostly combusting gas and particles freed from the object emitting light and heat. The 'easy' answer tends to be either 'it is plasma' or 'it is burning gas' and neither of these are strictly accurate. I'd disagree with the video saying 'fire isn't an object', because it kind of is in the same way that the sun is. In both we only see it because it emits light and heat. Neither is especially 'solid' either.

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Fire : *exists** Ted ed : _I am about to explain this guy's whole career_

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Same here 😊 i love the last part moon light with fire smoke and little cold weather 🔥🌘🕯️🏕️😳

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The music and crackle of the fire made me feel warm

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1:28 they left out one stage of matter: Bose-Einstein-Condensate. That stage is to solid that plasma is to gas. Its basically impossible to get, but it exists in space.

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What happened to Photonic Matter, Rydberg Molecules, Superfluid, Quantum Hall State?

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Quark-gluon plasma

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Sieger like

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the guitar in it just makes it feel so nostalgic...sitting by the fire late at night while camping singing songs, roasting s’mores, singing songs and telling story’s. so amazing 😌

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4:07 *People are divided into 3 groups :* kissing sleeping and reading books

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Or dead

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Of the four states of matter, Fire is most like a plasma, so referring to it as such isn’t all too inaccurate as TED-Ed presented.

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teacher: so class what is the matter of fire? Everyone who watched: a chemical reaction teacher: -_-

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What is the state?

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The state is nothingness

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Marco Tigno the depressed state

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If it has no state, then why do lightning does, when lightning vanishes more quickly than fire, this video doesnt make sense at all Anyway, i think Sun is a fire, but in its highest form (nuclear fusion form) we cannot say sun is water, nor wind, nor earth, nor lightning, it has to be at least fire, cause we can see and feel it as fire, fire in its highest form (nuclear form) remember that

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@@zach5994 @@zach5994 hydrogen what? The one we use in hydrogen bomb which creates a massive fireball explosion?, wake up dude, hydrogen is the fuel and it burns when the fusion takes place, releasing so much heat and light, same as fire when carbon burns too, it releases heat and fire, You know, science doesnt acknowledge nuclear fusion as fire, because when they made details of fire back then, they knew that it needs oxygen, fuel and heat to survive, and they made it as the official classification for creating fire, which nuclear reaction was unknown back then, now we have modern science, they can include nuclear reaction as another level of fire if they want too Cause you know, were not blind, we can clearly see and feel Sun as fire, not water, nor lightning,,, nor earth, it has to be at least fire, like what i said, Highest form of fire (Nuclear reaction state)

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Do you mean sparky sparky bright light?

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I think you mean hot hot bright light

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It didnt give me real flowers like i imagined

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So you're saying mayonnaise is not an instrument?

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You mean it was obvious?(Just curious.)

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mayonnaise is just our sensory experience of a chemical reaction

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Fire is like leaves changing colour during fall.... There's something so charming and melancholy in the statement. One of the most feel good pieces from Ted ed...

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This was a strangely philosophical video....

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"it's not alive" "But you said it was dying"

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I understood that reference

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"Aw look! It's a baby sun!"

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Croods!

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A great piece of advice just before Diwali . Now when I light each diya in my house I'm going to get amused by nature's miracle !

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This is very poetic. In science class I was thought about the attributes of living things: growing eating and dying. You might notice that fire is the exception to this observation of "life". It makes one think, maybe we all are a chemical reactions that will one day move on in a similar manner.

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This might be a bit random but maybe that links to the idea of a Phoenix: a bird of fire which never really dies. It just withers into ashes, and is then re-formed in an egg from those ashes, to create something which is physically the same as the thing which just died, but different in the sense that it is not the exact thing which died. (I explained that really badly haha). In the same way, a fire dies into ashes, and can be re-ignited from those ashes into another fire, which is physically the same (being a fire) as the fire which just died, but different in the sense that it existed at a different time. I explained all of that really badly, and it's a bit random, like I said, but I thought the general premises were pretty cool/interesting.

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we are chemical reactions. but thats not the onşy definiton we can be described with. its not enough to explain the human and the human condition.

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After all, Eep was right all along. A flame is living being. If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.

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The audio mixing is superb

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I accidentally fell asleep while watching the video because of the background music... Thanks Ted!

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The science channel starting pack: What is fire? Catchy intro Smooth narator voice Well writen script

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I see... a *BUG KNIGHT!*

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Nice vid. Dude...that is fantastic.

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In other words spicy air

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Slav -1 genius

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"Fire isn't actually matter at all, instead, it's our sensory experience of a process (..)" You can say that about anything. Anything can be described as a process, and anything can be said to actually be our sensory experience, rather than the objective reality itself. This is philosophy. But fire is still made up of something. Yes, it's a process, but it's a chemical process that involves chemicals, and chemicals are material. Heated gasses and solid particles that combine with oxygen molecules in a self sustaining process, that gives off light and heat through conduction and radiation. Though this is a lovely video in many respects, it' doesn't really provide a good and honest explanation for what fire is, but rather avoids the question by taking a philosophical detour.

[@aliciaf4744]

Exactly my thoughts.

[@TheGodThatNeverFail2]

They literally described that process and the chemical reactions it implies, and they didn't avoid the question, they answered it at the beginning: none. Also, phylosophical approaches are a good and honest explanations of reality, as much or even more than the use of the abstract scientific language of the hegemonic way we've been systematizing knowledge for a few hundred years trying to describe a process that implies more for humanity than some chemical reaction. If something, they provided a little bit more complex answer of what fire is. Remember, scientific knowledge it's a very narrow way to understand reality due to it's methodological implications

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Fire is a living being it needs air and food to survive

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@@finnthehuman2818 lol

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And they said its like a leave truning brown or an apple ripping, wtf those are solids its not like a chemical reaction stripped matter being in a state

[@Vlican]

such a complex subject and concept, beautifully animated and explained!!!

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"Ashen one, hearest thou my voice, still?" Dammit, Dark Souls! Now I hear that in my head whenever a fire fades.

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The sound design in this video is amazing

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I wish I'd had the words to explain how much i enjoyed this video. Thank you for expressing in such cohesiveness. Plus, the animation is adding a lot of combustion ;)

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3:36 It amazes me to see how accurate this video is. The exact colors in the BG are the ones that associate with heating the mentioned salt.

[@Skinniest_Kween]

This is the exact question I've asked myself about shadows.

[@permafrost8894]

isnt darkness basically absence of light idek

[@balkrishnadhabade327]

@@permafrost8894 Yup... Darkness is Absende of Light... and shadows are too... But I have another doubt... If there was no light... there was only Darkness... so Light is absence of Dark and not dark is absence of light...

[@ClumsyPsychopath]

Noone: TED: So we were thinking of introducing a new type of asmr...

[@enriquegabriel7708]

Omg now I am looking for fire sound and classic guitar. It is very relaxing.

[@Berserker2011]

The music makes it sound so nostalgic, like the Berenstein Bears or something of that sort.

[@jxancabuenos6301]

Thank you for answering my questions that I didn't ask you once 😂😂😂 Thank you again!

[@CalmAchiever]

What a beautiful explanation! I knew fire was a chemical reaction but now I know specifically the different pieces of the reaction. Thank you so much, TED-Ed.

[@LuisMartinez-vl7do]

What a complex and wonderful way to describe what it seems to be a simple question to answer!

[@schizophreniagaming1187]

Caveman voice: *"Fire is Fire"*

[@atharvavankundre4942]

ooga booga

[@ZeeTaylor25]

"Eventually, though, even the hottest fires run out of fuel or oxygen. Then, those twisting flames give a final hiss and disappear with a wisp of smoke as if they were never there at all." ❤️

[@coolstar7819]

I came back to watch this video, just because the animation is so appealing, really it calms me down.

[@luissalcedo9209]

I’ve been wondering about this for three years And just found this out

[@hanpritcher1766]

"Hey, Ted, you okay over there?" "I..I can see everything!!" "Talk us through it, buddy."

[@yogitakukreja2296]

This was so peaceful, beautiful and informative all at the same time :)

[@rosaliebosma]

_Summary for those with a short attention span:_ Q: What is fire? A: It isn't

[@Rockstar-lr6lg]

Fire: exists Ted: well yes, but actually no

[@syweb2]

It exists, just not as a state of matter. No one will argue against the existence of heat, but it isn't matter.

[@CannibalWarlord777]

I bewildered as to how anyone can walk away from this video under the assumption that fire doesn't exist. It's literally an exothermic chemical reaction that exists objectively from our minds. Just because something isn't matter doesn't mean it doesn't exist, because if that were the case massive swaths of physics wouldn't exist.

[@atomiccritter6492]

@@CannibalWarlord777 photons as an example

[@varshapremarajan9837]

Beautiful. The animation, explanation, voice n pace of narration n the music. Even with the heavy rains n cool air I felt all those sensations described here. Thank u

[@itsbk6192]

Fire is my mf'n mixtape and that shiz solid Edit: I have been scientifically humbled and have come to the resolution that my mixtape is actually as cool as an ice cube and that shiz, solid asf

[@KimkimaOfficial]

Emotional 😭

[@asstr0limn]

the animation style is gorgeous

[@Sahilsharma-ce4ow]

Any event exists Gravity: Allow me to introduce myself.

[@bluebagel8084]

I don't get it?

[@sungit_zi]

@@bluebagel8084 iknow i am a bit late but, i didnt get it either

[@Thunderbolt604]

Everyone thinking plasma was wrong lol

[@EdaNur-wg2cv]

And almost everyone who thought that, like me, thought they were clever.. 😂

[@aftab-shaikh]

Me too

[@Birgus_Latro]

@@EdaNur-wg2cv Too true, too true...

[@ZaxorVonSkyler]

Same here...

[@Boogy816]

Yep got me

[@jahnaviketha6300]

I love the background music it's so calming

[@underthecoveragent1653]

Me: teacher, is fire a solid, a gas, or a liquid? Teacher: *thinks deeply.* ... ... ... Teacher.exe has stopped working

[@hiawrj]

So to sum it up: Fire is molecules glowing, because they are heated? Different molecules heated produce different colors of fire. This was like a 4 minute answer and I'm still not sure what fire is. I guess it's a gas since it's singular molecules in the air?

[@TheSunriseAnimation]

I would say its a mixture of gasses that are reacting?!

[@hiawrj]

@@TheSunriseAnimation Well, gasses or liquids reacting doesn't cause a glow necessarily.

[@zotanica]

I actually thought it was energy. Or the manifestation of the energy created in Combustion.

[@CharDhue]

Id vote for energy

[@bobfake3831]

Its heat, plain and simple. its the very brief inonisation of the surrounding air causing atoms to get excited and sending out electrons. its a arather difficult progress

[@diwashrai]

One of the best Ted Eds.Period.

[@neiljohn3702]

May the fire of our curiosity burn forever

[@ProfessorPolitics]

Fire is not solid, liquid, or gas. It is the sound of Eminem's "Kill Shot."

[@syahmiauzan9387]

Very true 😂

[@austinfox4130]

You mean Africa by Toto

[@wengsbacay]

Pure fire... With a sick flow.

[@art-xlr8]

😂😂😂 yeah... or the sound of godzilla

[@edwinmiramontes7622]

Godzilla

[@thaias9654]

Thanks for that small segment on chemicals that change fire’s colors.

[@Min-Taro]

"What is fire?" ...A reaction? First thing that come to mind after suffering from chemistry class.

[@xubh_na]

When i was like 10 years old we first studied about solid liquids and gases but not plasma, i remember it was a Sunday when my father asked what matter fire falls into, and i replied "maybe it is not matter ?" He laughed and said it is plasma. Turns out my 10 year old self was right .