[Victoria Lakota Ostrovsky-Redner]

Victoria Lakota Ostrovsky-Redner  asked the Naked Scientists:
   
Hi  I'm Victoria Lakota and I am eight years old.

Why Is fire hot?

THANK YOU.

What do you think?

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Since you are 8 y.o. I won't use complex concepts so I'll have to be simplistic.
Fire, at least the common kind, comes from a chemical reactions which frees gas molecules and a lot of energy. This energy is responsible for the hot: all molecules of the flame moves quick and so the flame's temperature is high. The quicker they move, the hotter the fire.
Bye!

[playpiano1980]

Since you are 8 y.o. I won't use complex concepts so I'll have to be simplistic.
Fire, at least the common kind, comes from a chemical reactions which frees gas molecules and a lot of energy. This energy is responsible for the hot: all molecules of the flame moves quick and so the flame's temperature is high. The quicker they move, the hotter the fire.
Bye!

In one sentence, energy is being formed and released by the reaction of a chemical process...

[NewYork]

It is hot because of the active matters taking place inside it.