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Will a fire in a room affect humidity?
Hypothetically, if you were to just light a fire in the middle of the room, will that have any effect on the humidity of the room? It's hard to find an answer online - I'm mostly finding information on wildfires and that humidifiers can be fire hazards!
Hypothetically, if you were to just light a fire in the middle of the room, will that have any effect on the humidity of the room? It's hard to find an answer online - I'm mostly finding information on wildfires and that humidifiers can be fire hazards!
I'd like to know the how/why, too, if possible, since I'm curious. On one hand, fire's associated with drying, but on the other, would it evaporate more water into the air due to the heat?
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- cyswxmanLv 76 years agoFavorite Answer
Assuming that there is no additional source of water in the room, the humidity itself would not change as humidity is simply the amount of water vapor in the air. Now the Relative Humidity would lower as the air temperature rose since warmer air can hold more water vapor, and Relative Humidity is the ratio of how much water vapor is in the air RELATIVE to how much that air can hold.
Source(s): I'm a meteorologist - JamesLv 56 years ago
As the temperature in the room goes up, the relative humidity would go down. The absolute humidity may actually go up, since water is a product of combustion and also because water absorbent materials may lose water to the air in the room.
