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NATURE of October 13 and October 27 contain, criticisms by Prof. M. W. Travers of work from this, laboratory on the thermal decomposition of acetaldehyde. I had already expressed disagreement with similar criticisms at a meeting of the Royal Society in May, and did not wish to enter into a controversy in the columns of NATURE. Lest, however, absence of any comment be interpreted as acceptance, may I be allowed to state quite briefly that fresh experimental work by Dr. Winkler (in process of publication elsewhere) fully confirms that the reaction under the conditions of our previous work is almost entirely homogeneous, and shows by direct chemical analysis, that the pressure increase gives a reliable measure of the actual rate of disappearance of acetaldehyde?
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HINSHELWOOD, C. The Thermal Decomposition of Acetaldehyde. Nature 135, 67 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135067c0
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