fire triangle

English

An oxygen-based fire triangle diagram

A more tripod like representation

Etymology

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

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