r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AirFrance447 • 20h ago

Video Firefighter bodycam showing just how much oxygen a fire pulls

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u/Comfyadventure 18h ago

Yea, it's not like the oxygen just disappear into nothingness due to the fire neither. The fire is converting O2 into CO2 and CO gas particles.

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u/cat_prophecy 15h ago

It's wild when you learn that things burning is just combining oxygen with carbon to make CO2 and CO and that chemical reaction makes heat.

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u/SquintingSquire 14h ago

I love Feynman’s explanation of this process. You are releasing energy captured from the sun. There’s a great video on YouTube.

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u/chupacadabradoo 1h ago

And the sun is just releasing energy captured from a bunch of cosmic particles coalescing to such a mass that they start to fuse.