Thursday, November 6, 2014

What is combustion ?

Combustion or burning can be defined as a chemical reaction that occurs between a fuel and the oxidising agent ; produces the energy in the form of heat and light.

We can write it as ,

Fuel + Oxidising agent ------- >  Heat ( light ) + combustion products

However , complete combustion is impossible to achieve .

I said oxidising agent , which need not be oxygen everytime . Even hydrogen will act as an oxidising agent.