page_title: Flammability diagram
hierarchical_section_title: Flammability diagram
context_page_description: Flammability diagrams show the control of flammability in mixtures of fuel, oxygen and an inert gas, typically nitrogen. Mixtures of the three gasses are usually depicted in a triangular diagram, known as a ternary plot. Such diagrams are available in the speciality literature. The same information can be depicted in a normal orthogonal diagram, showing only two substances, implicitly using the feature that the sum of all three components is 100 percent. The diagrams below only concerns one fuel; the diagrams can be generalized to mixtures of fuels.
context_section_description: Flammability diagrams show the control of flammability in mixtures of fuel, oxygen and an inert gas, typically nitrogen.  Mixtures of the three gasses are usually depicted in a triangular diagram, known as a ternary plot.  Such diagrams are available in the speciality literature.  The same information can be depicted in a normal orthogonal diagram, showing only two substances, implicitly using the feature that the sum of all three components is 100 percent.  The diagrams below only concerns one fuel; the diagrams can be generalized to mixtures of fuels.
caption: Flammability diagram for methane