fire · combustion

a process where matter transforms energy into heat and light

Fire (noun) means: a process where matter transforms energy into heat and light. It emerges from matter, energy, change, heat: matter and energy interact through change, emitting heat and light as byproducts of transformation. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 21, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

Examples

• The 2020 Gospers Mountain fire in Australia burned 500,000 hectares over 74 days, releasing stored chemical energy from eucalyptus biomass. ecology
• A Bunsen burner in a Paris laboratory on June 5, 1857, ignited methane from the city gas line, producing a blue flame at 1,200°C. engineering
• Lightning struck a dry redwood in California’s Sequoia National Park on August 16, 2021, igniting the KNP Complex fire. meteorology

Emergence

Chain to foundations

Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

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