• Question: why is firehot and why does it burn us and anaimals

    Asked by amy821 to Jo, Kevin, Louise, Valeria on 20 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Kevin Mahon

      Kevin Mahon answered on 20 Jun 2012:

      Fire is hot because it’s releasing a lot of energy!

      The fact that all this energy in being released means that the atoms in the fire move much faster, and therefore way faster than the atoms that compose say, your skin or an animals fur.

      So when the those atoms enter in contact with your skin they will bombard with the atoms of your skin, therefore burning you/the animal

    • Photo: Joanna Cruden

      Joanna Cruden answered on 22 Jun 2012:

      Fire burns almost everything not just people and animals, the heat of the fire causes blisters and burnt skin, there is not much that can escape fire.

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