This article is about the physical property of fuels. For points at which fire alarms may be activated, see Manual fire alarm activation.
The fire point of a fuel is the lowest temperature at which the vapour of that fuel will continue to burn for at least five seconds after ignition by an open flame of standard dimension.[1] At the flash point, a lower temperature, a substance will ignite briefly, but vapor might not be produced at a rate to sustain the fire. Most tables of material properties will only list material flash points. In general the fire point can be assumed to be about 10 °C higher than the flash point,[2] although this is no substitute for testing if the fire point is safety critical.[2]
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