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If air is denser at colder temperatures, does that mean that fire burns better at lower temperatures?

If a flame has access to larger amounts of cold, dense air, wouldn't it burn better than if it was in a much warmer environment?
gpt
It would depend on the specifics of the flame, because there are two different factors at play. Denser air would provide more oxygen to the fuel, enabling the fuel to burn more quickly, but colder air would lower the temperature of the flame, reducing the average energy of collisions. There are definitely instances in which cooling the feed air is advantageous (the intercooler in a turbocharged IC engine, for example, as mentioned elsewhere).