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[kaian-a-coel]

Yup, fire is plasma.
Hell, if not, what IS it?

[Darvi]

Glowing particles in the gas that gets produced by the heat.

[10ebbor10]

Glowing particles in the gas that gets produced by the heat.

Well, technically, it's radiation produced by an oxidation process.

[Darvi]

If we expand the definition of fire, also radiation emitted by nuclear fusion/fission.

[10ebbor10]

If you expand it that much, you can incorporate any object that emits (visual spectrum) radiation.

[Graknorke]

Glowing particles in the gas that gets produced by the heat.

Well, technically, it's radiation produced by an oxidation process.

If we expand the definition of fire, also radiation emitted by nuclear fusion/fission.

I don't understand how you get from oxidation to nuclear radiation.

[Darvi]

Because, you know, stars and shit.

[frostshotgg]

What do stars have to do with oxidation?

[Squill]

Fire is the next form of matter above gas, known as plasma, which is why it is a glowing red and yellow color, or blue color. Havent you ever wondered what fire was? Why it is red but in a specific shape and moves around, its not a solid, liquid, or gas, its plasma. Plasma is described as basically a gas thats molecules have so much energy that they become another form of matter, like fire and lightning.

Lightning is plasma? How can you even think that? Just... STUPID.
I've seriously known since like 5th grade that lightning forms plasma by heating up the air.

[MagmaMcFry]

I've seriously known since like 5th grade that lightning forms plasma by heating up the air.

If "lightning" refers to the thing we see in the sky, then it is in fact plasma formed by electrical discharges.

[Darvi]

What do stars have to do with oxidation?

Nothing, but they're made of stuff that could be construed to be fire.

[Graknorke]

What do stars have to do with oxidation?

Nothing, but they're made of stuff that could be construed to be fire.

...no not really?
The 'gas emitting radiation due to being heated by oxidation' does not include stars at all.

[Darvi]

Hence why I said

If we expand the definition of fire, also radiation emitted by nuclear fusion/fission.

instead of

Also radiation emitted by nuclear fusion/fission.

[Graknorke]

But why expand the definition when it doesn't need expanding?

[Darvi]

Because when people think stars, they think a)pointy decahedrons, b)fuckhuge balls of fire, and/or c) celebrities.