Fire

Fire

Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products. Slower oxidative processes like rusting or digestion are not included by this definition.

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Famous quotes containing the word fire:

    “I haven’t much opinion of words.... They’re apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that’s what I say.”
    —Ellen Glasgow (1874–1945)

    “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935)

    “As I pursued my bodily functions, wanting
    Neither fire nor water,
    Vibrating to the distant pinch
    And turning out the way I am, turning out to greet you.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)