Recent content by shaypic

Thank you 256bits, for correcting my apathy ever so gently. I really do appreciate your challenge. The bouyant force will allow the gas with greater density to sink in the room, thereby causing the gas with lower density to rise. This will, to some extent, set up convection currents...

I suppose it would be helpful to shrink the box down to a manageable size so we can all think inside the box and still be on the same page. Let's assume we are talking about a fire burning with a carbon-based fuel, say paper. If I can distill two potentially separate issues: 1. Since carbon...

I've heard that fire creates a vacuum due to the consumption of oxygen. Obviously, combustion results in other gases being released (CO2 and H2O vapor). Some have said that there is no vacuum; others have said there is in fact a partial vacuum. I assume that it depends on the relative...