Combustion

Everyone has noticed combustion and probably didn’t even realize it. Combustion occurs in engines, campfires, and even in matches. Have you ever noticed when a match is lit it flares up and as it burns the match turns into ashes? When something burns that is basically combustion.

In a more detailed wording, combustion is a chemical change in which the reaction uses up something like oxygen to burn and release heat or energy.

Now that may seem like a lot to swallow in one sentence but in simpler words it is when something burns.

In matches, the wood burns along with the oxygen in the air and the end product is the ashes of the match. In engines the gasoline burns and the end product is the exhaust fumes from the tailpipe.

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