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Originally Posted by ZOO View Post
I can't help but think it is like a compression ignition event -- without any fuel other than the oxygen of course. I don't know what the compression ratio would be, so to speak.

I'm morbidly curious about the physics.
It is very much so. Check out adiabatic compression. Or as someone mentioned before the inside of a diesel cylinder during the compression stroke. In my simple mind the rapid decrease in volume causes a rapid and extreme increase in the temperature as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiabatic_process

The Combined Gas law may offer some math that could help.
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