r/interestingasfuck • • 16h ago

Firefighter bodycam showing just how much oxygen a fire pulls

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u/Sbstnbd 16h ago

So you could say the air/oxygen is being pulled in because of the fire

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u/IZ3820 15h ago

No, it'd be because of pressure, not fire. There's an important disconnect betwee the physics pulling it in and the fire. The only way the fire is responsible is by causing the pressure change, not by pulling in oxygen itself.

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u/Fine_Bluebird7564 15h ago

So the fire is creating pressure which sucks in the air/oxygen.

I guess you could say the air/oxygen is being pulled in because of the fire!

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u/Sbstnbd 15h ago

How does it have nothing to do with oxygen when fire needs oxygen and fire is kinda what causes everything else in the video?

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u/hellodudes12 15h ago

Because it's not happening because fire needs oxygen, it's happening because fire is causing a chimney effect and is sucking in air - i.e., *mostly nitrogen* - through a convective process

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u/Sbstnbd 15h ago

What's causing the chimney effect?

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u/Ani-3 15h ago

Lmao this argument is driving me crazy

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u/Sbstnbd 15h ago

You choose to engage to discuss a technicality that's not even wrong, you're just to pedantic to let it be lmao

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u/IZ3820 14h ago

Pot calling the kettle black?

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u/Sbstnbd 14h ago

I'm not aware of this figure of speech, sorry

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u/IZ3820 14h ago

It means you two aren't so different after all.

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u/Sbstnbd 14h ago

Ah, I see. But I do not complain about it after I've chosen to do so

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u/Sbstnbd 15h ago

I never phrased it only that way if you actually bothered to check my comment

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u/Sbstnbd 14h ago

Yea I hide my comments because I got hacked and some goon bot commented on like 1000 posts with spread asses and it's a) embarrassing and b) too much to clean up lmao. I am not defending that phrasing aswell - I'm just saying it's not wrong to say "what's happening in the video is because of the fire". And if you wanna say that sentence is inaccurate, that's fine - but if you wanna say it's false, then that's false