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The fire triangle is a useful teaching tool, but fails to identify the fourth essential element of fire: the sustaining chemical reaction. This has led to development of the fire tetrahedron: a triangular pyramid having four sides (including the bottom). In most fires it simply doesn’t matter which element gets removed; the fire fails to ignite, or it goes out. However, there are certain chemical fires where knowin ...
