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You might have heard that when clothes o...

You might have heard that when clothes of a person catch fire, the person is covered with a blanket to extinguish fire. Can you guess why?

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It is so because blanket stops the supply of oxygen (air) to the burning person and the fire is extinguished immediately.
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