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A GENERAL discussion on different aspects of explosions in gaseous mixtures took place at a meeting of the Faraday Society held on June 14 at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Westminster. The afternoon session, presided over by Prof. H. B. Dixon, was devoted to the consideration of explosions viewed quite generally. In an introductory survey of the subject, Dr. Garner pointed out the large number of factors which have to be considered. The rate of travel of a flame in a gaseous mixture appears to be intimately connected with the amount of preheating—probably by radiation from the flame-front—and with the thermal conductivity of the mixture. It is probable that catalysis also plays an important part in the spread of flame, and a number of substances were mentioned which can be regarded as positive and negative catalysts respectively. Dr. Garner described a possible mechanism which he termed energo-thermal catalysis.
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C., C. Explosions in Gaseous Media. Nature 118, 29 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118029a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/118029a0