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the chemical breakup where matter throws light as it falls apart
means the visible, glowing region of burning gas produced by fire, often flickering and emitting light and heat.
from From Old French 'flame' and Latin 'flamma,' meaning 'flame, blazing fire,' which traces back to an earlier '*flag-ma' from the root behind Latin 'flagrare,' to blaze or burn. That root reaches deep into Proto-Indo-European '*bhel-,' meaning 'to shine, flash, burn' — a family that also gives us 'blaze,' 'bleach,' and 'black' (the color of what burning leaves behind). The romantic sense of an old love being 'an old flame' is much younger, a poetic borrowing where passion stands in for fire.
- not matter
- It's glowing gas mid-reaction, not a substance
- zero gravity
- In space, flames burn as blue spheres
- candle heat
- A candle tip hits roughly 1400 degrees Celsius
- color code
- Hotter flames burn blue, cooler ones glow orange
- oldest tool
- Humans controlled fire over a million years ago
great london fire — destroyed 13,200 houses in london in 1666
olympic flame — lit at every summer and winter olympics since 1936
eternal flame jfk — burns continuously at john f. kennedy's grave in arlington