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IN bringing the subject of dissociation before the Royal Institution of Great Britain, the author proposed to confine himself to its influence on combustion and heating, that is to say, to its effects on combustible gases and the products of combustion, and on furnace work generally. His researches had been made for the most part in connection with large gas furnaces constructed according to his new system of working witli radiated heat, or what may be otherwise called free development of flame. In the first or active stage of combustion the flame passed through a large combustion chamber (all contact with its surfaces being avoided), and parted with its heat by radiation only; while in its second stage the products of combustion were brought into direct contact with the surfaces and materials to be heated, by which means the remainder of its heat was abstracted. This, in a few words, was a description of the method of heating with free development of flame. In perfecting this system of furnace, the principle of which was in many respects the reverse of that generally accepted, both as regards construction and working, he had to examine into the accuracy of certain scientific theories which could not be brought into harmony with the actual results he obtained.
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On Dissociation Temperatures, with Special Reference to Pyrotechnical Questions 1 . Nature 34, 64–66 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034064a0
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