“Oxygen NEVER “burns†in a chemical reaction.”
Sounds like you are suggesting that the oxygen is just a catalyst. It isn’t so... As in the simplest case of hydrogen and oxygen, both elements are consumed to produce h2o. After the reaction, we neither have oxygen or hydrogen, just water.
Good example, and the standard nomenclature is that hydrogen is being burned, not oxygen. Hydrogen is the fuel, oxygen "the burn". Same in an engine. Fuel is burned, oxygen does it. No one calls it an oxygen engine.
No. I know better than to suggest oxygen is a mere catalyst. A catalyst is unchanged in a reaction. Oxygen is a reagent in the “burn” process.
Just accept it. The fuel air bomb does not burn the oxygen.