Science Buddies: "Ask an Expert"

[size=18][color=red][b] yeah well ook...i need help with my fire experiment. i know i am doing forest fire prevention and all that fun stuff. soooooo yeah. i looked in a book by Margaret Fuller and she talked about all this stuff with cumbustion and i don't know what she is talking about!!!!!!!! i would like to know how fires are started in exact, but yet normal and easy words that are EASY ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND!

THANKS!
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Smileys???

Anyway, on to your fire question. Try doing google, ask.com, and answer.com searches on "Forest Fire Causes", or "Forest Fire Prevention", or "Wood combustion".

This should get you started.

You need to narrow down your topic to a question that you can test and find results for. Something on the order of "What is the effect of X on Y?"

Simply put, fire is started by heating a fuel to the point of combustion.
That heat can be generated by friction, electricity, chemical reaction, and other sources.

The following site has some basic fire information that may also help:
http://www.fire.org.nz/facts_stats/science/science.htm

The site is actually answers.com (not answer.com).

davidkallman wrote:The site is actually answers.com (not answer.com).

Could have been worse. At least I didn't type/spell "fire" wrong.