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Oxygen is used up.

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Which gas in the air is one of the reactants when substances burn?

Oxygen.


What happens when you burn a tire?

You create a lot of air pollution, rubber does not burn cleanly.


What happens when carbon solid is heated?

Carbon burn in air.


What is meant by flammable substances?

Flammable substances are those gases, liquids and solids that will ignite and continue to burn in air if exposed to a source of ignition.


Name the metal that can be burn in absence of air?

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What substances burn faster in oxygen?

Any substance that burns in air is likely to burn faster in pure oxygen, if all other conditions are equal.


What happens if you burn a plastic army soldier?

It melts and releases toxins into the air, as all plastics do when they melt and burn.


What happens when you burn sulphur in the air?

It mixes with clouds and create acid rain.


When metals are burned in the air they form new substance what are these new substance called?

The new substances formed when metals burn in air are called oxides. These oxides are a result of the metal reacting with oxygen in the air.


What happens when air is combined with substances like iron and water?

Air, iron and water will cause the iron to rust.


Why hydrogen can burn while it's inorganic?

Whether or not a substance can burn does not depend on it being organic. So long as it is a sufficiently reactive reducing agent, it can burn. It just so happens that most such substances on Earth are organic.


What happens to the argon gas when used in welding assuming it does not burn does it just dissipate into the air?

It just dissipates into the air.