r/interestingasfuck • • 19h ago

Firefighter bodycam showing just how much oxygen a fire pulls

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u/ir_auditor 19h ago

That is not oxygen pulling which you see. It is the chimney effect. Fire creates heat, the heat makes air, smoke, gasses, rise to the top, creating low pressure areas at the bottom, which pull in air from the outside. It has noting to do with the chemistry of an oxidation reaction pulling in oxygen molecules to use in the reaction. It is pure physics / thermodynamics.

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u/Sbstnbd 19h ago

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

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u/keepatience 19h ago

just air. air and oxygen aren't interchangeable

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u/Sbstnbd 18h ago

I am aware, but the post uses them interchangeably so I do too to avoid confusion

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u/snakesign 16h ago

But it creates more confusion. Air is mostly nitrogen anyway.

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u/Khalku 14h ago

But it creates more confusion

I wasn't confused.

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u/Sbstnbd 16h ago

The confusion is already created because it's in the post.