Questions tagged [fire]
For questions about byproduct of the combustion of materials.
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Fire in a Hydrogen Atmosphere
In my world (described further in my question How Would Wind be Different in a Hydrogen Atmosphere) plants build biomass by this reaction (where $hv$ is light energy):
$CH_{4} + H_{2}O + hv \to CH_{2}...
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Could a hydrophobic animal that drinks petroleum evolve on a desert planet?
I'm creating a sci-fi story with strange lifeforms. One such lifeform are the Inferni. The Inferni are quadrupeds who are great tunnelers. Inferni drink oil and other hydrocarbons for sustenance ...
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What would be a potential way to completely wipe all humans from Earth while still rendering it somewhat habitable? [duplicate]
I would prefer if it was something fire related, as it lines up best with my story. The current candidate is a beam from a quasar, but it seems to be too powerful and far away to work. I don't need ...
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In a world with magic that can be used to create fireballs cast from a persons hands, could setting off a fireball underwater create temporary oxygen?
My character in my story can wield magic, and this includes creating fireballs she can shoot from her hands. In one chapter, she falls into the ocean and is struggling to reach the surface again. ...
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How would an ancient Chinese necromancer keep his skeletons burning?
During the Xi dynasty of Ancient China, Zhang Xianzhong accidentally gained the power to animate and control the dead by supernaturally puppeteering the corpses like extremely sophisticated ...
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Will fire still burn well in my atmosphere?: concentration vs partial pressure
I recently learned from this article that flammability in oxygenated environments is far more dependent on the concentration of the Oxygen in the air rather than the partial pressure of the Oxygen.
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Fully electric flamethrower
Flamethrower and other incendiary weapons often use several liters of fuel and due to this they are easy targets and dead weight in an army. Additionally flamethrowers that use fuel have limited uses. ...
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How would fire behave in an oxygenless atmosphere with a significant percentage of chlorine?
I’m mostly interested in chlorine since (as far as I understand) it’s the most viable, but I’m open to others as well (if it’s worth it).
I’ve been working with a sort of “worldbuilding challenge” on-...
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How would burn-proof people react to enflamed alcohol?
The Ardeites are a group of humans who are wholly immune to being injured by heat and flame. Furthermore, they cannot feel pain. All other features (including instinctive reactions to extreme ...
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How long could a sealed room/building smolder and still be capable of a backdraft/flashover when reopened?
As a hypothetical, say a bad dude decides he needs to burn a home for some reason, but doesn't want the fire to be immediately spotted and responded to. He gets the house sealed up to the point where ...
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Would a character who got burned as a baby, with a third degree burn in one arm lose mobility in that arm?
The story would be set in a sort of medieval period, and the character in present day would be about 16 years old.
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What would happen if your body had more capillaries?
I'm working on a character who can emit fire from her arms and forearms. I read in a previous question that an increased amount of capillaries can increase the body's ability to carry heat away. If ...
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Will the Violet-hot Flaming Torch Annihilate Everything Around Him?
I have an OC. His body can combust and become coated in flames, but when he gets really ticked off, his fire becomes hotter and becomes violet in color.
From what I've read, violet fire is extremely f*...
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What would something as hot as the sun do to its surroundings on Earth? [closed]
Introducing sun boy, he has the magical ability to maintain a constant body temperature equal to the surface of the sun. What would be his effect on his surroundings? Would he just vapourise ...
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How much gasoline does there need to be to ignite and cause a fire in a small shed? [closed]
I'm trying to write a story where a gas leak causes an explosion. How much minimum gas would there need to be for a small shed/small room to ignite when a match is lit in there?
The doors and windows ...
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Would this fire-based magical catastrophe turn a forest region into a desert?
A massive magic ritual involving the nation's greatest spellcasters utilizing an entire city as their focus, either through miscalculation or sabotage, inadvertently open a massive portal into the ...
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How could a church maintain the illusion of an Eternal Flame for hundreds of years?
In the world I am developing, a group called the Garotakor Kobark base their belief system on a fire that has burned consistently for hundreds of years. It has been contained within a step pyramid-...
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What kinds of things that aren't fire (but are related to fire) could cause fire damage in a world where elemental magic exists? [closed]
This question arose in the comments of a question about dragons and sunlight (How do migratory dragons avoid being blinded by sun?). The question is, what exactly is it that causes fire damage (in the ...
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Plausibility of an advanced civilization that never found fire?
A world similar to earth (climate fluctuations, the need to cook food), and because the natural atmosphere doesn't have oxygen, the intelligent organisms there don't breath oxygen. How far could a ...
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Flames with Unusual Colors
I saw that in A Song of Ice and Fire the dragons have flames of varying colors depending on the color of their scales. Balerion has black flames with red swirls, Tessarion has cobalt blue flames, ...
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What is the dragon's breath to be made of?
Inspired by GoT, I wanted the dragons of Arcadia (the world I'm building) to have their fire breath in the most biological way possible. By this I mean that fire will not be magical, technological, ...
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A Dragon with Ignition abilities
I'm in the process of creating a plausible fire-breathing dragon, halfway through. As I don't want my dragon to have to eat stones to spit fire or light sparks because that could limit the dragon to ...
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How potent would a dragon's fire be?
In the Game of Thrones TV series the fire of the dragons is "biological" and comes from two tubes in the dragons' mouth. In the second last episode of Season 6, the dragons Viserion and ...
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How to keep fire magic out of the Army?
The big Empire in my setting has some inspiration from the pre-Islamic Persian Empires, and thus they really like Fire. They were the first to develop fire-magic and all of their priests are educated ...
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Could flammable alcohol be used as a weapon in combat?
I'm developing a character who becomes stronger the more alcohol is in his body but couldn't think of an appropriate weapon. Then I had the idea that he could use alcohol in some sort of flame based ...
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