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THE recent suggestions by Khan and Kasha1 and by Ogryzlo et al.2 that the emission of light which occurs during the interaction of hydrogen peroxide and sodium hypochlorite might be ascribed to singlet–triplet transitions of molecular oxygen have led us to examine the possibility that among those chemical reactions which yield molecular oxygen the heterolytic processes alone might prove to be chemi-luminescent.
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McKEOWN, E., WATERS, W. Chemi-luminescence as a Diagnostic Feature of Heterolytic Reactions which Produce Oxygen. Nature 203, 1063 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2031063b0
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