In September 1975 (50 years ago, to the month) I started a chemistry degree at one of the three most prestigious universities in the UK – Oxford, Cambridge, or Reading. I will not be drawn on which one, for hopefully obvious reasons.
You will appreciate that my chemistry knowledge is a bit rusty after half a century. I never practised chemistry in my work career, going straight into business management after university, firstly with the Beecham corporation. So you will hopefully understand that when someone recently asked me whether oxygen is flammable, I struggled to give an answer.
I invite you to provide your answer (with your thinking on the matter) and will be publishing comments in two days’ time. It would defeat the object of the exercise to research the question online (or otherwise) before answering, so please go ahead and comment. I look forward to your responses.
If you’d like email notifications of our new blog pieces, please enter your email address in the box near the top of the right-hand column and click ‘Subscribe’.
We shall shortly be posting this piece on our X channel.
Our YouTube channel is here.
Justice for Men & Boys 
Oxygen supports combustion, rather than being flammable itself. Otherwise, if you put a lighted splint into a test-tube full of oxygen, it would explode, rather than simply causing the splint to burn (oxidise) more rapidly.
Oxygen is, however, probably responsible for there being males, females and sex.
2.5 Billion years ago, the Great Oxygen Event (GOE), began to fill the planet with oxygen. Life became hard for anaerobic bacteria. They sought refuge by becoming endosymbiont with aerobic bacteria, who benefitted because the anaerobic bacteria (proto-females) could detoxify reactive oxygen species like singlet oxygen. Eventually, the endosymbionts became mitochondria. All mitochondrial DNA is passed down through the maternal line, to the present day. Sperm mitochondrial DNA is assassinated by ubiquitin, at the moment of conception.
Control of mitochondrial processes puts the female in charge of metabolic processes.
The singlet oxygen deactivation process is essential for making sex steroids. https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Organic_Chemistry/Organic_Chemistry_(OpenStax)/27%3A_Biomolecules_-_Lipids/27.07%3A_Biosynthesis_of_Steroids
The catalyst, flavin hydroperoxide, places an oxygen at the 3-position of the steroid skeleton. The oxidation level of that oxygen will determine whether you exhibit female or male behaviours. The female sex hormone, oestrogen, a phenol, is much more stable than the male hormone, testosterone, an alpha, beta-unsaturated cyclohexenone. The latter is meta-stable only in muscular bodies, lacking fat, which contains the enzyme aromatase.
Thereby, women, through mitochondrial control of metabolic processes, keep men ‘thirsty’, and give them reason to take risk on their behalf.
Now, that has explosive consequences.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes it is flammable otherwise nothing would burn
LikeLiked by 1 person
Is oxygen flammable? Only if the oxygen identifies as flammable. If not, then the answer is no.
LikeLiked by 2 people