Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: 3 D Up in Flames
Humans are thought to have mastered controlled fire in the middle of the Paleolithic era. Half a million years later, engineers Tadd Truscott and Dale Tree, of Brigham Young University, are trying to quantify it. Using high speed cameras...
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Engineering Videos: How a Car Engine Works
View a four-stroke internal combustion engine and see how its different parts such as pistons, valves, and spark plugs work together to help get cars moving. [1:40]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Chemical Reaction Types: Combustion: Lesson 1
This lesson will show that a combustion reaction is a hydrocarbon burned in oxygen to form water and carbon dioxide. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Chemical Reaction Types: Combustion."
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Balancing Another Combustion Reaction
A video [4:57] showing how to balance the combustion reaction of ethane.
Next Vista for Learning
Next Vista for Learning: What I Think Fire Is
A video explaining that fire is combustion or burning of substances that combine with oxygen in the air to give off bright light and heat. Video also gives a brief history of fire and its purposes in society. [1:45]
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Experiment Videos: Pharaoh's Serpent
Watch a "Pharaoh's Serpent" reaction, which occurs during the combustion of mercury thiocyanate. [0:36]
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Is Combustion a Chemical Reaction?
Check out this video of an experiment illustrating combustion. What can be determined from the activity? [0:47]
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: The Importance of Oxygen
In this video, Paul Andersen explains the importance of oxygen in accepting electrons. He begins with a brief description of combustion. He then explains the role of oxygen in aerobic cellular respiration. Do you speak another language?