Question

If you hold a piece of iron wire with a pair of tongs inside a candle flame or a Bunsen burner flame, what will you observe? Will it produce a flame?

Answer 1

Hint: The atomic number of iron is 26. And the chemical symbol for iron is Fe. In a Bunsen burner the flames are divided into different categories which depends upon their level of combustion.

Complete step by step answer:
- The kind of burner which is used in the laboratories is known as a Bunsen burner. This burner is used to safely burn the continuous streams of the gases. In a Bunsen burner the flames are divided into different categories which depends upon their level of combustion. Due to this different level of combustion, different colours of flames are observed.
When we hold a piece of iron with the help of tongs the iron wire of the iron material will become red and start glowing. During this process, no flame is produced by the iron, the iron wire will only become red hot.

Additional Information .
The chemical symbol is used to represent an atom or an element. The chemical symbol of an element usually consists of one or two letters from the Latin alphabet and the first letter is always capital. There are many sources from which the symbols are derived, it includes Greek name of an element or German name etc.

Note: A Bunsen burner has different types of flames. The hottest portion in the flame is the tip of the middle zone and the coolest part is the whole of the middle zone except the tip which is hottest.