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MESSRS. NEUMANN AND ESTROVICH have recorded1 some experiments on the conditions of spontaneous inflammation of the mixture C5H12 plus 8O2 when heated in an iron bomb and in a bomb the inner surface of which was covered with gold. The peculiar relation which they find between pressure and ignition-temperature also appears in some unpublished work of the late H. B. Dixon.
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NATURE, 133, 105, Jan. 20, 1934.
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COWARD, H. Influence of Pressure on the Spontaneous Inflammation of Hydrocarbons. Nature 133, 463–464 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133463d0
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