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The state where matter quits being solid and starts being light, heat, and drama.
means On fire, or appearing to glow or burn — whether literally with flames or figuratively with passion, color, or excitement.
from Built from the prefix 'a-' (an old English way of saying 'in' or 'on,' the same one lurking in 'asleep,' 'ablaze,' and 'afoot') stuck onto 'flame.' 'Flame' itself traveled in from Old French 'flame,' which traces back to Latin 'flamma' — a cousin of words for blazing and burning. So 'aflame' literally means something like 'in a state of flame.'
- chemistry
- Flames are plasma-ish gas glowing from chemical reaction heat
- no shadow
- A candle flame casts almost no shadow itself
- color code
- Blue burns hotter than orange, despite looking calmer
- zero gravity
- Flames go spherical and blue in space
- oldest tool
- Humans tamed fire roughly a million years ago
mount etna eruption 2021 — sicily's volcano erupted with lava fountains reaching 1km high in february 2021
australian bushfires 2019-2020 — 18.6 million hectares burned across australia, destroying homes in new south wales and victoria