What IS fire? (and what happened in Beirut?)

<p><strong>#056</strong></p><p>Seriously. What is fire? This week Melissa and Jam hop out of the frying pan. What are those warm orange wisps? We all sort of know what fire is but also, do we? It's hot, it can be good, it can be bad. But why does it look like that? And what really IS it? Let's try to find out </p><p>Like the show? <a href="http://www.ko-fi.com/chemforyourlife">Buy us a coffee to help keep our show going AND free.</a></p><p>Want to start your own podcast? <a href="https://transistor.fm/?via=jam">Use Transistor and you'll have the best podcast platform available.</a> We use it and we are totally in love with it.</p><p><strong>References from this episode</strong></p><ol> <li><a href="https://unto.com/beirutrelief/?mot=PASP23">https://unto.com/beirut </a></li> <li><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/05/beirut-explosion-how-help-victims-lebanon/3300822001/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/05/beirut-explosion-how-help-victims-lebanon/3300822001/</a></li> <li><a href="https://mypages.iit.edu/~smart/pawebar/lesson3.html">https://mypages.iit.edu/~smart/pawebar/lesson3.html</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.chem.fsu.edu/chemlab/chm1020c/Lecture%207/01.php">https://www.chem.fsu.edu/chemlab/chm1020c/Lecture%207/01.php</a></li> <li><a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.5b00333">https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.5b00333</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.sbu.edu/docs/default-source/life-at-sbu-documents/chemistry-of-a-fire.pdf?sfvrsn=0">https://www.sbu.edu/docs/default-source/life-at-sbu-documents/chemistry-of-a-fire.pdf?sfvrsn=0</a></li> <li><a href="https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Ammonium-nitrate#section=Boiling-Point">https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Ammonium-nitrate#section=Boiling-Point</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-ammonium-nitrate-the-chemical-that-exploded-in-beirut/">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-ammonium-nitrate-the-chemical-that-explod