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How does fire heat air?
Fire is a reaction that includes the air. To be precise, it includes a part of the air, oxygen. It releases the results of the reaction as a new part of the air. Those reaction results are hot and mix ...
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How does fire heat air?
Heat conductivity is not the same as the ability to absorb heat, only to pass the absorbed heat through the material. Air within the flame can absorb heat, but the air cannot quickly pass the heat to ...
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How does fire heat air?
That is the reason fire is hot.
While others have pointed out the role of the exhaust products, the main takeaway is that yes, air is not easily heated by fire.
What happens is that the excess energy ...
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How does fire heat air?
The fire is a sustained combustion process resulting from the combination of oxygen from the air, fuel and heat sustaining an exothermic chemical reaction that produces various gases (CO2, CO, etc.) ...
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How does fire heat air?
Molecular collisions
Fire generates heat in several ways: mostly as radiation, but also as the kinetic energy of the products of the chemical reactions (which are mostly the products of oxidation of ...
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How does fire heat air?
The air is part of the chemical reaction which produces the "heat" and the gaseous products of combustion have more kinetic energy than the air had originally.
The products of combustion ...
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What would be a beginner's book on radiative transfer?
Chandrasekhar's book is anything but suitable for beginners.
Rob Rutten's course on radiative transfer is classic in the field of stellar atmospheres. It is available here:
https://robrutten.nl/rrweb/...
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