why is this smoke dissipating?

Phoenix General
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Basic question, but why is the smoke in the attached file dissipating after a few frames?
What decides dissipation apart from the Smoke Dissipation setting?
explosion_001.zip (24.2 KB)

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Ah, this is because smoke is not really smoke - looks like the opacity is mapped to the SPEED grid channel instead, so as the explosion dies down, the speed reduces and the opacity decreases:

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One day I hope I’ll be able to say I’m proficient in Phoenix FD. I keep making these silly mistakes.
Thank you!!

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Hehe, no probs!