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Moly B. Denum
Oct 26, 2007

DicktheCat posted:

This is a question so silly that it may sound facetious, but I assure you it isn't : is there a kind of fire that doesn't burn oxygen? I know nuclear things like the sun are technically "burning", but I personally don't equate them with fire in the traditional sense. Is that wrong?

I've always been taught that, to snuff a fire, deprive it of oxygen, which is why the chems that burn underwater seem mystifying to me (always figured maybe it was because there is oxygen in water). So, do these things just not need good ol' O2 or what?



Sorry if that's mind numbingly stupid, chemistry and physics are most certainly not my strong suit. :downs:

Oxygen isn't the only oxidizing chemical. Something like Chlorine trifluoride can make just about anything burn, can't be extinguished and reacts violently with water. Some other things that burn under water are a mixture of fuel and oxidizer, like gunpowder.

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Moly B. Denum
Oct 26, 2007

The Wii didn't have separate gamecube hardware, it's CPU and GPU were just die-shrunk and overclocked gamecube parts. When running in gamecube mode, it just lowered the clocks to the gamecube values.

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