Warpfire is my own take on the warp power. To be perfectly scientifically honest, warpfire is even more ridiculous than warp.

Contratary to what you might think, breaking bonds (chemical or molecular) takes energy, it does not cause energy. However, since we’re using mass effect field space magic here, I decided that warp works by using the mass effect field to unbalance the strong nuclear force binding a molecular bond together.

While certainly not oxidation, this would produce waste heat as long as all of the bond-breaking energy is actually supplied by the mass effect field

Functionally, a fission reaction is more akin to what flare does. Warpfire is more like fire in that it is not an instant effect. More practiced users of warpfire can actually have the warp feed on the energy of molecular bonds and use that to quicken the burn or increase the damage.

A warpsword does not actually ‘hold’ it together. When it is ignited, a thin mass effect field generated by the eezo core of the blade covers the metallic facing, and the warpfire floats atop this. As warp itself must be sub-monomolecular as it breaks bonds, this provides infinite sharpness.

I actually got the idea from the canon description of tech armor, and wondered what would it be if the ‘top layer’ of the armor was removed?