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title: Did You Know Flames Were Electric? — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/did-you-know-flames-were-electric/
date: 2013-03-15
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# Did You Know Flames Were Electric?

Is a flame really a plasma? Well it depends on your definition of plasma, but there are certainly ions in a flame, formed as molecules collide with each other at high speed, sometimes knocking electrons off of their atoms.