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EXPERIMENTS on the autoxidation of gaseous formaldehyde (at 100° C.) in the light of the mercury are showed the existence of a rapid induced polymerisation, which continued unabated as a dark reaction on switching off the light. No oxidation occurred during this dark reaction.
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CARRUTHERS, J., NORRISH, R. Polymerisation of Formaldehyde. Nature 135, 582–583 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135582b0
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