Why does water put out a fire?

Question

this is my summer school science homework. i need help. thanks : ]

Answer 1

water absorbs the fires energy and takes away its fuel (oxygen)

Answer 2

ANY THING that occupies the oxygen around the fire takes it out because fire needs to occupy oxygen to burn.... resserch online becasue this is the technical reason but You cant use it for an essay or wtvr.

Answer 3

fire's chemical properties are absorbed by the water's h2o, the h and the o combine make properties like fire vanquish

thats why fire is taken out by water or p**s

dam i have no idea what im talkin about just ignore me

Answer 4

well the reason why water puts out fire is simple! Think about it like when you take a shower how does water take off dirt?its the same thing almost.

the answer to your question is because the water slides the

dirt and slides the fire its like fire is hot water is cold whats stronger hotness or coldness?Think about it if you live in hotness you will die right away if you live in coldness

you will live for a long time so thats why coldness is stronger than hotness.because in hotness you die right away in coldness you live so

basiccly its like cold and hot fighting and cold will win. HOPE I HELPED GOOD LUCK IN YOUR PROJECT!!!!

Answer 5

because its dat way

Answer 6

When you put water on a fire it does two things. It displaces the free oxygen molecules (which have two atoms of oxygen) so that it is not available to participate in the burning process AND it turns to steam, carrying heat away from the fire, cooling it to the point where it can no longer burn.

Answer 7

Because of the little amount of Oxygen and the chemical reaction when all those particles meet.

Answer 8

because its wet

Answer 9

Because the water turns into vapor when it hits the fire and robs the fire of the oxygen it needs to burn

Answer 10

Because water is more dense than fire.

Answer 11

the moisture puts out the heat, because the molecules are denser than the heat. so it is able to stop it, i guess

Answer 12

fire needs oxygen so water prevents it from getting air

Answer 13

Ever try to set water on fire?

Answer 14

because it blocks off the oxygen which the fire needs to thrive... and its wet...

Answer 15

Water takes out the heat of fire,

    and doing so it lessens the force of

the burning. In turn, liquid water becomes vapor.

This vapor is like a small cloud among the fire.

The fire needs air to go on and the cloud

makes this difficult, because where water vapor

is present, air can not be present. And then, the

fire is "suffocated", without air. The fire is

killed. To take out the heat of a fire is

very important, because the heat is

what makes the air put fire in the wood.

Answer 16

Water smothers fire; it eliminates the supply of oxygen. Fire needs oxygen to burn (it's part of a chemical reaction). When there is not enough air, the fire dies out.

Answer 17

When things burn, combining with oxygen, energy is released. You would have to put in yet more energy than this to split away the oxygen again.

So the burnt items stay burnt - including the water which is burnt hydrogen. Water extinguishes a fire in two ways: by boiling - which takes a lot of energy from the fire, and by smothering.

Goodluck :)

Answer 18

it just does, google it, your going to anyway.  If you took what ppl said on here as absolute fact you'd be in trouble

Answer 19

Cause it cools the temperature.

Answer 20

The way fire works is to heat something up where it vaporizes the compounds that are volatile.  In the vapor stage they can then combine with oxygen and make more heat to make more vapor.  Water smothers it because it takes so much heat to convert it into a vapor and steam isn't flammable.  The temperature falls below the flash point of the vapor.

Answer 21

why can't you breath underwater?

simple chemistry ma'dear.

Answer 22

Because it removes something fire needs.