FIRE & FUELS: TRUE or FALSE?1) A fuel always produces heat when it combusts

2) All fuels are solids

3) In a car, chemical potential energy in transformed into kinetic energy

4) A fuel, supply of oxygen and a source of ignition are needed for combustion

5) The source of oxygen for most combustion is the air

6) Most fuels are compounds containing carbon

7) The energy stored in nearly all fuels originally came from the moon

TRUE

FALSE, they can be gas and liquid also

TRUE

TRUE

TRUE

TRUE

FALSE, came from the sun

FuelsFuels 03/05/23

A “fuel” is something that can be burned to release heat and light energy. The main examples are:

Coal, oil and gas are called “fossil fuels”. In other words, they were made from fossils.

Experiment 1:

Burn a strip of Magnesium1)Write down your observations2)Write a word equation for this

combustion3)Write a balanced chemical equation for

this reaction

Experiment 2:

Ignition (burning) temperature:Paper: 450oC Meths: 78oC