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MESSRS. NEUMANN and Aivazov direct attention1 to the negative temperature coefficient of the combustion of hydrocarbon mixtures under certain conditions; this phenomenon, which has also been referred to by Pease2 and by Beatty and Edgar3, seems well established. The explanation given in the letter is a formal presentation of the views which have been put forward in various communications dealing with hydrocarbon combustion, the peroxide theory and knock in engines. The step A B is the normal process whereby the hydrocarbon is oxidised to aldehyde.
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NATURE, 135, 655, April 27, 1935.
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EGERTON, A., UBBELOHDE, A. Critical Phenomena in the Oxidation and Self-Inflammation of Hydrocarbons. Nature 135, 997–998 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135997b0
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