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PROF. GALLOWAY (NATURE, April 19, p. 584) considers that my explanation of the phenomenon described by Mr. Temple in his letter (March 29, p. 512) is inadequate, and he offers a different explanation. With the view of deciding the question some experiments have been made here by Mr. C. E. Whiteley. I may perhaps repeat that the phenomenon in question is the continued descent and re-ascent of the inner cone of a coal-gas and air flame when a suitable mixture of the two is ignited at the end of a glass tube fixed so as to form a prolongation of the metal tube of a Bunsen burner.
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SMITHELLS, A. The Oscillation of Flame Cones. Nature 74, 80 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074080a0
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