Category Archives: Invisible Gases

Why does a fire smoke?

We’ve all see smoke rising from a bonfire or the chimneys of factories and houses.  When a log in a fireplace burns, some of the burning wood is changed into invisible gases.  These hot gases, which consist mostly of water vapor and carbon dioxide.  Are very light.  They rise up the chimney and drift away …

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