[cymbeline]

An aeronautical engineer once told me that an essential quality of all aviation fuels is that in the fuel tanks, the air-fuel mixture above the fuels must not be ignitable. Fortunately, for all fuels used in transportation, the mixture is not ignitable.

Air-fuel mixtures are not ignitable if the air-to-fuel-vapor mixture is either too high or too low.

I’m thinking that the air-fuel vapor mixture above jet fuel in a tank is not ignitable. If that’s the case then the NTSB explanation for the flight 800 explosion might not be correct.

[CodeToad]

“I’m thinking that the air-fuel vapor mixture above jet fuel in a tank is not ignitable. “

Not only that but when the Air Force tried to test that theory the ONLY way they could get an explosion is when they added propane to the tank.

[American Constitutionalist]

That's the problem they had with developing a new fuel for the SR-71 BlackBird because the plane's skin at super sonic speed would be at tempetures over 600 degrees, way over the temperatures in a 747 center fuel tank.
So yes there are stabilizers for fuels and I do believe that they engineered them to only burn at certain temperatures.