Burning or oxideizing?

Some of you, probably, misunderstand the word of burning at all. In my point of view, a men should know what he is speaking with. So, what is the burning overally? Does burning equals flamming? What is the proper definition of it? I hope, some of you do know the approximate definition of it. It is usually taken for the rapid proccess of oxideizing. Huh, that's truth, but it poses a forward: what the rapid proccess really is?

Pyrotechnics is the part od science established decades ago in ancients. They claimed that it is a state of fire-rising. For now it's rather used in army for military tactical strikes. The most tackling problem supposedly is the problem of controling the way that masses of pyrotechnical mixtures are being oxidized. So the first matter to inquiry should be the matter of burning in all. As we said, burning is the oxidizing proccess. Oxideizing, furthermore, means the process of rising the oxidation state. That's of course a metaforic meaning of the quantity of electons in particular atom of the element or in whole molecule (ions for instance). So, one is hardly stated. Burning is the oxidation procces in redox meaning because, for expample, not only the molecules with oxide built in the structure have the oxidative features. It can be every element that has a potential to donate electrons to say that it has oxidative features so that it would be a redox procces when it goes with the reductive one. Anyways, I am only tring to conjure up the image of how divierse the burning proccess can be. But, where is the difference between the slow and rapid oxdation? It stays in some visual traits. While burning, there are two main sferes that can be distingushed. One is the sfere of the products of this redox process with usually highly unstable sfere of visual element into, another one is the one where the unreacted substances still remain. Moreover, these two sferes differ also in temperature itself. It is also worth to notice that those two do not differ with the pressure. If so, it would be classified as a explosion. But that would be in another topic...
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