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Re:Peat fires continue to burn at air temperature of -50C in... by ISL on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @04:01PM (#25933881)
In absolute temperature, there isn't much difference between 273K and 260K....
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Re:Peat fires continue to burn at air temperature of -50C in... by recursive on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @04:12PM (#25934021)
True. And more significantly, both of those are a similar distance from the combustion point of the fuel.
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Re:Peat fires continue to burn at air temperature of -50C in... by revax on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @05:03PM (#25934667)
Plenty of things are nonlinear in physics though.

For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%E2%80%93Boltzmann_law

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