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    • Close up of blue flames from a gas burner element.
    Rights: 123RF Limited Published 3 November 2009 Size: 17 KB Referencing Hub media

    In complete combustion, the burning fuel will produce only water and carbon dioxide (no smoke or other products). The flame is typically blue.

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      Fire is the visible effect of the process of combustion – a special type of chemical reaction. It occurs between oxygen in the air and some sort of fuel. The products from the chemical reaction ...

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