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LONDON. Chemical Society, January 16.—Mr. A. G. Vernon Harcourt, President, in the chair.—The following papers were read:—The acetylene theory of luminosity, by V. B. Lewes. The adverse criticism of the acetylene theory of luminosity by Smithells does not affect the considerations upon which the theory is based; these are (1) that the unsaturated hydrocarbons in the inner region of the flame are largely converted into acetylene before luminosity commences; (2) that pure acetylene develops luminosity when flowing through a heated tube; (3) that the temperature necessary to decompose acetylene with evolution of light does not raise to incandescence the liberated carbon; and (4) that in luminous hydrocarbon flames of sufficiently high temperature, the luminosity varies directly with the amount of acetylene present at the point where luminosity commences.—The action of sodium alcoholate on certain aromatic amides, by J. B. Cohen and W. H. Archdeacon.
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Societies and Academies. Nature 53, 357–360 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053357b0
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