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PROF. W. T. DAVID and his co-workers have published a moving-film record of the passage of flame gases along a glass tube1. Such records have frequently appeared elsewhere2, but the explanation given by the writers of the letter, namely, that "the flame gases, although luminous after the early stages of flame-front travel from the igniting spark, suddenly become non-luminous after further travel (due apparently to a sudden change in the mode of combustion in the flame-front)" is a mis-reading of the photograph.
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Nature, 155, 273 (1945).
See, for example, Ellis, Fuel in Science and Practice, 7, 409 (1928).
Payman, Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 120, 90 (1928).
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PAYMAN, W. Non-luminous Flame Gases. Nature 155, 672 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155672a0
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