Fires begin whenever a flammable or even a combustible substance, together with a enough quantity of the oxidizer including oxygen fuel or A further oxygen-abundant compound (nevertheless non-oxygen oxidizers exist, such as chlorine),[fifty six] is subjected to a supply of warmth or ambient temperature above the flash position for that fuel/oxidize

From the use of fire to Prepare dinner foods, to apparent land, also to furnish warmth and illumination in caves or hovels, fire has long been placed on vessels of clay to generate pottery and also to pieces of ore to acquire copper and tin, to mix these to create bronze (There are few things that have carried out just as much damage to humanity as