Flame
A flame (from Latin flamma) is the visible, gaseous part of a fire. It is caused by a highly exothermic reaction taking place in a thin zone. Some flames, such as the flame of a burning candle, are hot enough to have ionized gaseous components and can be considered plasma. There is, however, disagreement on this subject.
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Famous quotes containing the word flame:
“And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“Our courage breaks like an old tree in a black wind and dies,
But we have hidden in our hearts the flame out of the eyes
Of Cathleen, the daughter of Houlihan.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Surrealism ... is the forbidden flame of the proletariat embracing the insurrectional dawnenabling us to rediscover at last the revolutionary moment: the radiance of the workers councils as a life profoundly adored by those we love.”
—Manifesto of the Arab Surrealist Movement (1975)