Hello I am Flamita, I am here to introduce you to the fantastic world of knowledge, on this occasion it is my pleasure to present a discovery that is, I believe, the most important in the history "Fire". During your trip through these pages that I have designed alone, without any type of help from Ivan, Luis or Simon, I will explain to you step by step how it was adored in the ancient times and its most probable discovery, I will also teach you how and when to produce it under safe conditions, you will discover the dangers that it represents when it is out of control, the main uses and finally I will show you some first aid techniques for burns.

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Very well, at this time you will be wondering what the fire is? Well, some people may say that it is the "Flame" and others would say that the fire is the substance that actually burns. The best way to describe fire is to say that it is the rapid combination of oxygen with carbon or other elements in organic substances in such a form that they produce heat, light, and almost always Flames. In wider sense, it is the process for which the combination of a chemical element with another produces heat, light and Flame, when such elements decrease to a gaseous state. This phenomenon is called combustion, and it is so common that it would be difficult to find a human being that was not familiar with it.
 
The discovery made by primitive man that he could obtain big advantages using fire, influenced so much in humanity's progress that today it figures alongside discoveries as important as language, writing and the first notions on cultivation of the earth. In modern times industry, transport and many other daily activities could not have been conceived without fire. .

In  spite  of  the  familiarisation  with fire,  very  few  know  what  it  really  is. There  are  as  many  types  of  fire  as  combustible materials. Coal, for example, is difficult to light and then it burns slowly and with a very small flame. But a film  hardly touches a fire and it bursts into flames. It is called inflammable  matter. Also, there are things, such as gunpowder, which  burns much faster, because  its  intensity  only  lasts  a very  short time. They are  called  explosive  materials.

 Fire
All these are different types of fire and they are used for different purposes. To heat a house during the whole day, or to conserve vapor in a locomotive, coal is needed. To blow a great rock, dynamite is needed. To move an automobile or an airplane a series of small explosions of gasoline is needed. But, if the fires of a fragment of coal, of some dynamite and of a drop of gasoline are so different... what is common among the three?... that the three types of fire are product of the combination of those substances with the oxygen.

For that reason a flame extinguishes under a glass: all the oxygen has been used. For that reason a match extinguishes when squashing it between your fingers: the air has been removed. For that reason the electricity contained in a bulb doesn't burn: inside the bulb there is no air. For that reason the interior of the Earth and the Sun don't burn: because neither has air. Fire only takes place when a substance combines with oxygen. If a substance cannot alight, it is incombustible, like glass. If it can only partly combust, it will leave residuals like smoke and ashes.

Now go on to the combustion section