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 * What is fire?**

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Brain Teaser A fiery adjective you should know,  With letters seven and syllables two.  Add a letter and watch it grow,  To become a noun with paler hue.

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 * What is fire used for? Think about how is has been used in the past and how it is and has been used in other cultures.


 * Have their been any significant fires in your town or district? If so, choose one to find out about it? Why do you consider it to be significant?


 * NASA has helped develop a number of new technologies that help detect, prevent or eliminate fires such as Thermal Insulation used to protect race car drivers and the smoke detector. Find out about one of these or another technology NASA has developed in fire safety research. Does this technology effect your life in any way?


 * A burn is a type of injury to flesh caused by heat, extreme cold, electricity, chemicals, light, radiation or friction. Find out more about one of these types of burns.


 * Contact your local fire-station and ask for a fire fighter to visit the school and explain about fire extinguishers and demonstrate how to use them.


 * Design your own technology to detect, prevent or combat a fire. See a design.


 * Design and make a homemade fire extinguisher. Test it out - make a video if you can (don't include your name or face as then we can upload it here for others to see.) Here is one example.

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Brain Teaser Mr. Od-1 had just bought a new factory to start producing hydrogen gas for his alternatively fueled vehicles. For safety reasons, there could be no flammable materials in the factory, just steel and concrete. Nothing was even painted. He then hired a company to install a state of the art fire protection system. They had installed hundreds of highly sensitive smoke detectors throughout the factory. Each was linked to a sprinkler control unit so, if triggered, it would immediately open the sprinkler above the fire. Thus, it would save the whole factory from water damage in the event of a fire. After much testing, the system was working perfectly. But when Mr.Od-1 inspected the system, he couldn't believe the colossal mistake they had made. He called the designers of the system in and explained to them, "This is a hydrogen plant. There are no flammable materials allowed in the plant, and employees wear fire proof clothing while in the plant; the only thing that can catch fire is the hydrogen itself." Understanding their mistake, the system designers rebuilt the system.  What had they done wrong?

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