Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Triangular Plot: Flammability Diagram for Methane

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flammability_diagram_methane.png

A triangular plot is a visualization tool that graphs the ratios of three separate variables on an equilateral triangle, in order to show how they relate to each other. These plots are especially beneficial in that they allow three separate variables to be plotted on a simple two dimensional graph, thus they aide in the organization of data, much in the same way that 'traditional' maps do. This particular triangle plot is the depiction of the flammability of methane in relation to the ratios of nitrogen and oxygen present.

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