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[The school of N. Semenov is well known to physical chemists throughout the world. Its outstanding contribution has been the application of the theory of branching reaction chains to problems of combustion and explosion. In 1935 Semenov himself published a standard treatise on “Chemical Kinetics and Chain Reactions”. His ideas have provided a comparatively easy way through many complex and mysterious phenomena. The following article describes how the theoretical and practical work of his school has developed.-Editors, NATURE.]
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SEMENOV, N. ADVANCES OF CHEMICAL KINETICS IN THE SOVIET UNION. Nature 151, 185–187 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151185a0
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