fire triangle

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Etymology

From fire +‎ triangle.

Noun

fire triangle (plural fire triangles)

1. The three elements necessary and sufficient to sustain a fire: fuel (e.g. wood or petrol/gasoline), oxidizer (e.g. oxygen), and sufficient heat (e.g. reaction temperature or activation energy).
2. The diagram representing these three elements of a fire.
3. A fire and its three components. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• combustion triangle

Related terms

• fire tetrahedron

Translations

Translations

Finnish: palokolmio French: triangle du feu (fr) m German: Verbrennungsdreieck n, Feuerdreieck n Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Italian: triangolo del fuoco m Japanese: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Romanian: triunghi de foc n Spanish: triángulo del fuego m