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What color is fire?


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Fire can be several colors. This all depends on the gases and chemicals in the environment the fire is burning. ChaCha!

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Fire can range from white, green, blue, orange and red. Go ChaCha!

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That depends on what's burning. Wood fires are generally orange, but different substances produce different colored flames.

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Gas excitations are responsible for vivid examples of colored light. Arc lighting, neon lights, sodium or mercury vapor lamps.More

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For example, copper produces a blue flame, lithium and strontium a red flame, calcium an orange flame, sodium a yellow flame, MORE

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