The burning match

Watch the match burn. Reveal the energy stores to see what changes.

Simplified energy account: tracks the energy released by burning the available fuel, not all chemical energy in the remaining material. Ignition energy is omitted. Light also transfers energy and is counted here as thermal energy after absorption by the surroundings. The thermal bar shows the combined energy gained by the match and surroundings, not their starting thermal energy or temperature. Burning is shown at an illustrative rate.