A Limiting condition for the burning of flammable liquids

{fx245-02} largest temperature of a liquid surface at which sustained diffusional burning of the liquid {fx245-03}. As expansion of the fire point has been developed in which the theoretical temperature of a flame burning above a liquid surface is related to the temperature of the surface; it is thus {fx245-04} between extraction and sustained burning occurs at some critical value of the theoretical flame temperature, due to the influence of reaction kinetics. This explanation as used by decreasing the fire points of {fx254-05} pure liquids. The derived values of the theoretical flame temperature were on the range 1530–1710° K which may be compared with a limiting temperature of about 1600° K for the sustained burning of gaseous hydrocarbons in atmospheres progressively {fx254-06} with nitrogen. It is therefore concluded that explanation offered for the phenomenon is a {fx245-07}.