Does Fire change color according to temperature?

Question

Does Fire change color according to temperature?

Answer 1

the bluer the flame the hotter the fire

Answer 2

Not really. Fire color usually depends on the elements in the object being burned. Most stars are usually Blue, Yellow, and White because they are of the same elements.

But the hotter the thing being burned is, it can turn a little different of a color.

Answer 3

yes, but it also changes because of what's burning. If you have just wood, the blue part of the flame is hotter than the yellow part. different things burn different colors. Just think of all the colors you see at the fireworks show. Any color you see there, you can get fire that color. So you have temperature and chemical make up determining the color of the flame. In a basic camp fire. blue is hottest and red and yellow are cooler. *still hot, but not AS hot!*

Answer 4

Umm I don't know the answer, but the way I got your question was does fire change color according to the temperature it's in, like the temperature around it. The way people aabove me are answering is if the bluer the flame the higher the temperature the flame itself is.

Answer 5

Yes. At the hotest part of the flame there will be a clear, blue color. Then the cooler parts of the flame that are orange, red, and yellow. Yellow is the coolest part of the flame - usually the tip of the flame.

Answer 6

Yes. It will turn pretty clear and slightly blue when it gets really hot.



Run your hand through an orange flame, it doesn't hurt.

Run your hand through a blue/invisible bunsen burner. . . You got 2nd degree burns.



Also, the very tip of the blue part of a bunsen burner flame is the hottest. Just hold a piece of cardboard over it and you can see where the hot spots are pretty well.

Answer 7

Yes, white is technically the hottest color of the 'flame spectrum.' Go to wikipedia and type in fire.

Answer 8

Yes. Generally, dark red or orange indicates a not so hot flame, while white and blue show clean burning and hot, usually because of an added oxidizer to completley burn any fuel available.

Answer 9

Yes, you have orange, red, yellow and blue

Each have a different temperature depending how it's being contained and used and mixed with oxygen and pressure.



You also have a cold flame that's yellow.

You see circus acts use. it doesn't burn you.



Sincerely yours,

Fred M. Hunter

Answer 10

Yes, look at the flame on a cutting torch - the outside is not nearly as hot as the small tapered inner flame which actually does the cutting.

Answer 11

I think it does I mean if you increase it to at least 2000+ it should look like magma



... but I do know it changes according to the amount of oxygen present.

If there is less oxygen, a yellow flame is emitted.

If there is more oxygen, a blue flame is emitted.

Answer 12

Absolutely, a blue flame is hotter than a yellow or orange flame

Answer 13

yes, different portions of a flame are different temps. Also different fuels will have different colors

Answer 14

Yes, Blue is the hottest. White is probbly the least, that is why when you throw your hand around the fire, it doesn't burn you

Answer 15

yes fire can be, Blue, Green, & Orange

Answer 16

color is dependent on the fuel type or contaminates in the fuel

Answer 17

No, the colour is dependent on the type of fuel.

Answer 18

yep.