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RECENT work1,2 on the nitrogen dioxide sensitized hydrogen-oxygen reaction has shown that at 360° C. the reaction: HO2 + NO → OH + NO2 is fast relative to other reactions of HO2 in that system. On this evidence it was predicted1 that at similar temperatures hydrogen peroxide and nitric oxide would react by a chain mechanism, since above 420° C. hydrogen peroxide decomposes homogeneously by a mechanism3 involving the radicals OH and HO2. This prediction has now been verified and a preliminary investigation of the reaction is described here.
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TYLER, B. Reaction of Hydrogen Peroxide and Nitric Oxide. Nature 195, 279–280 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/195279a0
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