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Reaction between Oxygen and Hot Gold

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DURING the development of an apparatus for measuring the rate of disappearance of oxygen at a pressure of a few microns in the presence of hot metal filaments, gold was used for providing a ‘blank’. It was expected that the reaction would be immeasurably slow.

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  1. Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Hants.

    L. G. CARPENTER & W. N. MAIR

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CARPENTER, L., MAIR, W. Reaction between Oxygen and Hot Gold. Nature 179, 212–213 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/179212a0

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