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If burning requires breaking chemical bonds: loads of substances don't burn. If burning is the act of ionizing, then everything burns. Humans like to put thin
by willis936 5y ago
If burning requires breaking chemical bonds: loads of substances don't burn. If burning is the act of ionizing, then everything burns.
Humans like to put things in neat boxes, but nature doesn't really care about our boxes.
- aidenn0 5y agoBurning certainly does not require breaking chemical bonds (or else Hydrogen is not flammable). I always considered burning to be oxidation; possibly only when oxygen is the oxidizing agent.