Newspaper combustion

[Pangolin]

If newspapers are allowed to pile up and are left can this result in spontaneous combustion?

[Mortartube]

I reckon possibly. If they are damp when stacked and bacterial action begins to break them down. This is the same sort of process that makes dung heaps steam and get warm. I would suggest that there would need to be fairly critical conditions for it to happen though.

[Pangolin]

Thank you Eddies for your most helpful reply!

[Peter Pedant]

no

there have been other threads on spontaneous combusition

and basically newspapers dont figure

(dead bodies, low oxygen and an ignition source most difeinntiely do

[spaced]

every material has an ignition point. the paper would have to be close to something that would allow it get to its iginition point.