{"id":13455,"date":"2014-02-07T22:25:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T22:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/?page_id=13455"},"modified":"2025-12-09T09:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:51:15","slug":"combustion-reaction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/combustion-reaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Combustion Reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>What is a Combustion Reaction?<\/h1>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" title=\"Combustion Reaction\" style=\"width:420px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_BmFUNXZ75NU\"><div id=\"lyte_BmFUNXZ75NU\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FBmFUNXZ75NU%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\">Combustion Reaction<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BmFUNXZ75NU\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FBmFUNXZ75NU%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Combustion Reaction\" width=\"420\" height=\"295\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:420px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"accordion\"><input id=\"transcript\" type=\"checkbox\" class=\"spoiler_button\" \/><label for=\"transcript\">Transcript<\/label>\n<div class=\"spoiler\" id=\"transcript-spoiler\">\n<p>When a substance combines with oxygen and produces a large amount of energy in the form of <b>heat<\/b> and <b>light<\/b>, a combustion reaction is taking place. Oxygen can combust with compounds such as magnesium and sulfur. Here are some examples of sulfur and magnesium combustion reactions: here we have sulfur combusting with oxygen, and magnesium combusting with oxygen.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the compounds that they form, they are also creating <b>energy<\/b> in the forms of heat and light. Now, for any combustion reactions to take place they all require burning. Oxygen will always be a reactant. All these reactions have oxygen as a reaction\u2014notice here oxygen is a reaction, oxygen is a reactant\u2014because everything on the left side of the reaction equation (the reaction process) is a reactant.<\/p>\n<p>Now, many carbon compounds such as propane, wood, and coal undergo combustion. <b>Hydrocarbon combustion<\/b> provides vast amounts of energy for home heating, industry, and making electricity. Burning hydrocarbons usually produces carbon dioxide gas and water vapor.<\/p>\n<p>Now we have a sample combustion reaction here, it&#8217;s a hydrocarbon combustion reaction, because we have a hydrocarbon right here of methane. The reaction is taking place, we have the reactants over here, and then they form the products. Notice that one of the products is energy, and energy consists of heat and light.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to all of this it&#8217;s creating, it&#8217;s also creating heat and light, so that makes it useful for other things like home heating, industry, and making electricity. Notice again here that we&#8217;re not really losing anything: see we had 4 hydrogens here, we have 4 hydrogens over here; we had 1 carbon here, we have 1 carbon here; we have 4 oxygens there, 2 of them here, and 2 of them here. 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