Many of the gases in the atmosphere of titan such as methane,ethane and acetylene are highly flammable. Why...
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No oxygen of course. NASA has looked into heating space suits for use on Titan by using a flame generated by burning oxygen from a tank in the Titan atmosphere. Very practical, don't you think?
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Uh, your question is miscategorized\nthe metabolic process is not fire \njust because it shares a single characteristic\ninterestingly the products of hydrocarbon combustion \nare CO2 + H2O\n\nIf you get a 90% efficient furnace it will condense water in the exhaust stack
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It isn't but there are some particles in the atmosphere that are flamable, but they are so widly spaced you won't even see a fireball, Anyways oxygen has a special chemical compound that feeds fire, but thats all, its not "flamable" its just food for fire.
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To begin with, it's not smoke!\nThe fuel burned in a jet engine is paraffin (kerosene if you are American). Now paraffin is a compound of carbon and hydrogen; the carbon burns to carbon dioxide - which you can't see - and the hydrogen burns to water vapour. At very high altitudes this water vapour condenses and then freezes into ice crystals. This is what you see ... a 'contrail' or a 'condensation trail'.
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Methane gas from the ocean floor..in large amounts..it can cause a tanker size ship to sink in less than 10 seconds..it can cause..plane instruments to read you are climbing in altitude when they are not....1% methane gas in the air is enough to cause a plane engine to stop running instantly.. thus planes crashing ...it has been looked into very well ..I agree..with that theory.
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Thats a good question!\nNow, when you burna hydrocarbon, the bond between hydrogen and carbon breaks. but they cannot exist in that form as they are both good reducing agents. so they react with the oxygen present and form new molecules. Now when you burn with limited supply of air, hydrogen being the better reducing agent has more affinity for oxygen than carbon. so it readily combines with oxygen to form water vapour. however, the carbon tends to form carbon di oxide(complete combustion) but due to lack of oxygen, it forms carbon monoxide. now excess carbon that has broken bond with hydrogen and still has neither hydrogen nor oxygen to combine with remains as carbon but is very active. thus carbon can also be formed when you burn a hydrcarbon in limited supply of air.
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According to my sources:\n\n"Titan bulk composition is half water ice and half rocky material. It is probably differentiated into several layers with a 3400 km (2,040 mi) rocky center surrounded by several layers composed of different crystal forms of ice. Its interior may still be hot and there may be a liquid layer consisting of water and ammonia between the ice crust and the rocky core."\n\nThere is also a picture to the right that you can click on to make larger so see the relative concentrations of materials in the moon's physical makeup.\n\nAlso, my sources go on to say:\n\n"The Cassini mission has revealed that Titan's surface is relatively smooth."
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The air we breathe is 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen and a small amount of trace gases.  Under normal conditions, the air provides the oxygen which allows other fuels to burn.\nHowever, under pressure and very high temperatures (such as in a automoblie engine), the nitrogen can chemically combine (burn) with the oxygen gas to form a series of compounds called nitrogen oxides.  Some of these are serious air pollutants.\nSee the site below for additional information:
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it's the same with a flame as well, I would assume that the heated gasses that burn off last are what causes it to be hotter.
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Air -- which is primarily nitrogen and oxygen with lots of other gases -- is not flammable or combustible.  It can explode from pressure (such as a ballon that is overfilled), but it cannot explode from combustion by itself.\n\nCombustion requires three things: fuel, oxygen, and heat.  It is a chemical process by which fuel combines chemically with oxygen and releases energy.  This is called oxidation.  If a fuel does not readily combine with oxygen in the presence of heat (or doesn't release a great deal of heat when it does so), it is said to be not combustible (or flammable).  The more energy a fuel releases when it combines with oxygen, the more explosive it is.  Wood burns, but it doesn't (ordinarily) explode.  But TNT explodes. So what air lacks to explode is combustible fuel.  \n\nAlso oxygen is not combustible because it is the component that combines with fuel to make combustion; we call it an oxidizer.  \n\nWhy does the sun burn?  Well in point of fact it does not combust like fire, because it is a nuclear reaction rather than a chemical one.  It's energy is in the form of radiation rather than chemical bonds.  It uses the fusion of hydrogen atoms into helium to release nuclear energy.  So while it is hot, it is not oxidizing, and so is not burning in the way that fire burns.
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That should only happen with copper or copper salts.\nIt's the oxidation of the copper in the flame.\nAll elements burn differently, this is the basis of how a spectrometer works.
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Hydrogen is highly flammable, burning at concentrations as low as 4% H2. When mixed with oxygen, hydrogen explodes upon ignition. A unique property of hydrogen is that its flame is nearly invisible in air. This makes it difficult to tell if a leak is burning, and carries the added risk that it is easy to walk into a hydrogen fire inadvertently.
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An example of a flammable cryogenic is Carbon monoxide.
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It has it's flammable state...Try to imagine it as a fuel air bomb.Thn there you will get your Idea.
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Methane is an explosive gas if its lel is 100%. It does not appear to be part of the green house gas. Methane is lighter than air,and if it was part of the green house problem there would be a large layer near the Van Allen belt,which would be explosive to missiles passing through it.
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They're gases (although butane forms a liquid under a little pressure) and the rest are liquids, at room temperature. Pentane is highly volatile, though.
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It has a thick, dense atmosphere that is almost entirely nitrogen, like 98%. It is one of only four celestail bodies with a thick atmosphere: earth, Venus, Mars, and Saturn's moon Titan. Other planets or moons have very thin, wispy atmospheres about 1/800,000 that of earth's, but these are nothing more than trace gases and not a true atmosphere.