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IN the course of investigations into the inflammability of ethylene/oxygen/nitrogen mixtures, some interesting observations have been made on the type of flame produced by spontaneous ignition at 300°. Experiments were carried out in a cylindrical steel bomb (explosion cavity 3.8 cm. dia. and 15.3 cm. long) mounted vertically and fitted with a quartz window near the top.
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Kane and Townend, Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 160, 174 (1937).
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ABBOTT, J., MILLER, S. Observation of Cool Flames with Ethylene. Nature 168, 474–475 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/168474b0
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