What Is Fire?

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Why does fire burn? What’s the chemistry and physics of a flame? This week, learn about the beautiful science happening inside a flame!

Michael Faraday’s Christmas lectures on candle chemistry:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/christmas-with-faraday-the-chemical-history-of-a-candle/
http://www.bartleby.com/30/7.html

Flames in space:
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/18jun_strangeflames/

Richard Feynman talking about fire:
http://www.itsokaytobesmart.com/post/27299255757/fun-with-feynman-fire-you-cant-help-but-smile

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