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It was known from the very beginning of combustion science that the chemical reactions converting fuel to combustion products are complex, because the directly observed phenomena of flame propagation, explosions, slow ignition, critical fuel/oxidizer ratios, and so forth depend in subtle ways on the conditions under which combustion takes place. For most of the history of the subject this complexity could be described only in a patchwork fashion, much like describing the character of a vast country by showing a handful of snapshots from different parts of it. It was always appreciated that an understanding of combustion chemistry could only be attained by identifying the individual molecular events responsible for it and knowing how rapidly these events take place.
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Gardiner, W.C. (1984). Introduction to Combustion Modeling. In: Gardiner, W.C. (eds) Combustion Chemistry. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0186-8_1
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