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Re: Pre-Ignition or Detonation?
Posted to Technical Theory Forum on 12/14/2003

Carl,

One of the things I was taught back in my school days at GMI is that in normal combustion the flame front propagation rate is between 50 to 150 feet per second. In detonation or pre-ignition that rate jumps to about 1000 feet per second. That really he... Login to read more.