The article entitled "The Combustion Phase of Burning Metals," which appeared in the November 1992 issue of Combustion and Flame was not solely a critique of Glassman's work, but rather, was intended to present inconsistencies in published temperatures in metals combustion work, inconsistencies in published thermodynamic concepts from many well known and reputable sources including the JANAF Tables, and to try to get the combustion community to focus on this very interesting and unique phenomena, that is, the combustion of metals.
Glassman is correct that we (the authors) were not present in 1959 when he (Glassman) was developing his "criterion" and therefore we do not know what he understood his various terms to mean. However, had we been present, just as he is currently suggesting, he would (hopefully) have clarified the concepts to conform to universally accepted usage. We do understand, based on his publications, that Glassman considers saturation temperature, boiling temperature, gasification temperature, dissociation temperature, flame temperature, and now pseudo-boiling point to mean the same thing. The authors do not agree that these are equivalent concepts. Further evidence of our contention of Glassman's misapplication of these terms is a statement from his recent publication [1] that "... the variation of TSAT,MxOy (= T r, 'that is, flame temperature '1) with pressure can be determined from the 1 These single quotes are' our addition and do not appear in the original publication.