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IN the Research Items in NATURE for September 18 and in correspondence in the issues of October 23 and November 20, attention has been directed to experimental work by Willey and Rideal (Jour. Chem. Soc., July 1926) which led them to suggest that active nitrogen consists of metastable molecules having an energy of about 42,500 cal. per gm.-mol. ( = about 2 volts).
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JOHNSON, R. Active Nitrogen. Nature 119, 9–10 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119009b0
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