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Other substances also burn faster in higher pressures of oxygen, and some things that will not burn in normal room air burn under increased oxygen pressure. So nasty fireballs can result from burning things under high oxygen pressures, but it isn't because the oxygen itself burns.
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Just to shut off a particular avenue of pedantry, oxygen burns the way a priest marries- the priest marries people who are then married to each other, oxygen could be said to "burn things" which are burned but it is not itself burned.
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www.instructables.com/community/Does_Oxygen_burn/
www.instructables.com/community/Does_Oxygen_burn/
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It is usually said that the fuel 'burns' and that the oxidant 'supports combustion'. Oxygen takes part in a lot of these reactions, but always as the oxidant, never the fuel. So a chemist would normally say that oxygen supports combustion, but that it does not burn.
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www.madsci.org/posts/archives/mar99/921736773.Ch.r.html
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Tell the students that you are going to throw a match into this concentrated oxygen. The students will retreat in hopes of avoiding the impending inferno. Most students believe that the oxygen will burn all by itself.
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www.allatoms.com/LOXpage.htm
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Is oxygen flammable? From a database of frequently asked questions from the Chemical change section of General Chemistry Online. ... In combustion, oxygen oxidizes a fuel. But oxygen itself isn't a fuel. Demonstrate to your friends that oxygen itself doesn't burn by asking them to write a combustion equation for oxygen.
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antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/reactions/faq/is-...
antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/reactions/faq/is-oxygen-flammable.shtml
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If fire needs oxygen of burn, how come it is used in H2O to put out fire? Asked by: Laura ; Answer; Fire occurs when free oxygen combines with (oxidizes) another element (mostly Carbon), creating new molecules (like carbon dioxide) and energy in the process. ... Sodium by itself reacts violently in contact with water.
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www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae628.cfm
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Oxygen Levels and Burn Time; J0534; Objectives/Goals; Question: How fast will different objects burn ... Procedure: Begin pumping oxygen into jar. Place material in bottom of jar. Ignite the material and time how long it burns until it extinguishes itself. Perform 5 trials with each material in each level of oxygen.
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www.acaiburndiet.net/
www.acaiburndiet.net/
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Why does oxygen burn? Oxygen burn by itself? How do you burn oxygen? Why oxygen does not burn? What fuel burn in oxygen? How fields burn in oxygen? Why oxygen support burning? Why don't oxygen itself burn? Does oxygen gas its-self burn?
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wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_oxygen_burn
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