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    • Piece of burning white paper partially a light.
    Rights: Ilya Akinshin, 123RF Ltd Published 2 February 2018 Size: 75 KB Referencing Hub media

    506K or 233°C is the temperature at which paper heated in air spontaneously combusts. A novel written by Ray Bradbury called Fahrenheit 451 is based on this. On the Fahrenheit temperature scale 506K is 451°F.

    Image: Ilya Akinshin, 123RF Ltd

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