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THE flash photolysis technique1 has been used to examine the photochemical decomposition of lead tetramethyl. At an energy of 2,500 joules (50 µF.; 10 kV.) the decomposition of lead tetramethyl at pressures up to 12 mm. mercury was shown to be largely complete in 1.2 m.sec. after the initial light flash; this was the time for the reaction vessel to become opaque to light due to the deposition of a lead film. The contents of the quartz reaction vessel (volume 500 cm.3, surface/volume = 1.6) were examined in this interval by passing a second light flash through the length (1 metre) of the vessel into a large Littrow (Hilger E1) spectrograph using a slit width of 0.02 mm.
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COOK, C., CLOUSTON, J. Absorption Spectra arising from the Photolysis of Lead Tetramethyl. Nature 177, 1178–1179 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/1771178a0
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