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Combustion or burning is a complex sequence of chemical reactions between a fuel and an oxidant accompanied by the production of heat or both heat and light in the form of either a glow or flames.
Since not every oxidation process results in the production of heat (for example, corrosion), the term combustion can only be applied to exothermic processes that occur at a rate fast enough to produce heat.
In a complete combustion reaction, a compound reacts with an oxidizing element, and the products are compounds of each element in the fuel with the oxidizing element. For example:
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I can smell the heat coming off the wood of my deck. There's going to be spontaneous combustion any minute now.
redcantab (Kama Bailey) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:22:13 -0000
I can smell the heat coming off the wood of my deck. There's going to be spontaneous combustion any minute now.
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