Fire Absorption or heat Absorption?

Question

Everybody knows that there are breakouts of fire everywhere correct?

And Firefighters can only do so much to help. There basic material to stop fire is water. But the thing they should try to do is invent a fire Absorber. Something that just pulls fire into it. Everybody knows how magnets attract metal in seconds. I think it would be somehow possible to do the same thing with heat or fire. It would stop fires in seconds, more people would live. Not only would it help stop fires in seconds it could contribute to world defense. Ok lets say that two countries got into a war for any reason, and both of them have access to atomic or nuclear bombs, so one day they just decide to bomb each other. Sucks huh? but it could be prevented, lets say the countries are unstoppable so no one can go and stop the bombs. Ok now imagine a big or even small heat absorber, then a nuclear bomb being sent to each country. The heat absorbers ready to work before the nuclear bombs go off, so as they start to go off all that nuclear energy or heat is absorbed or sucked into a certain machine for containment. So now everybody in the world can be safer. The machine would work as a heat seeker and heat capturer. Doesn't that sound like a good idea?

Answer 1

Great idea.  Now go find it.  But first understand how heat and fire are related and how you put out fires.

Water is used because it is a great heat absorber - it puts out fires because it lowers the temperature of the burning material and, to a certain extent cuts off the supply of oxygen.   Water, when vaproizing, requires more heat than almost any other material (and much cheaper than some of the choices.)

There is a decades old science fiction story about fighting fires in the future where the goal is to do almost no water damage by injecting a precisely defined amount of water at exactly the right time to chill the entire fire all at once and evaporate all the water.   It requires the fire department to keep detailed building plans and records of building contents.  In a practical sense, it also ignores what happens when you instantly turn a few hundred kilos of water to steam inside an enclosed building - it would blow the walls off and steam cook much of the contents.  And most buildings have nooks and crannies where fire hides, as any fire fighter can tell you.

Answer 2

good luck

Answer 3

It sounds wonderful.  I think you can find it right next to the fountain of youth that Ponce de Leon was looking for centuries ago.  

Fire is a chemical reaction.  Your analogy to metals and magnets isn't exactly solid.  

If you can discover or invent what you describe, you will retire quite comfortably.  Until then, fire prevention, early detection, and large amounts of water will be the best bet going.