Comment by ben_w

Comment by ben_w 11 hours ago

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I believe LOX is injected into the engine as a liquid, it gets atomised rather than boiled?

And you can have fires where both fuel and oxidiser are solid: thermite reactions.

"Fire point" seems to be more of a factor for conventional fire concerns, albeit I'm judging a phrase I've not heard before by a stub-sized Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_point