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Closed cup vs. Open cup flash point

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fne

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Can someone help a non-chemical engineer? Building codes define combustible and flammable liquids based on their closed cup flash point. If provided MSDS information lists open-cup flash point, is their any way to correalate the two?
 
Quoting from wikipedia:

Closed cup testers give lower values for the flashpoint than open-cup testers (typically 5–10 K) and are a better approximation to the temperature at which the vapour pressure reaches the "lower flammable limit" (LFL).
 
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