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From the very beginning of combustion research, it was understood that the chemical reactions of the combustion process consist of the oxidation of fuel. For example, it was clear that when hydrogen–oxygen is burned, water is formed, and when methane–oxygen is burned, water and carbon dioxide are formed.

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    Temperature dependence of the rate coefficient (3.1.8) had been suggested by Jacobus Van’t Hoff (the first winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1901). Svante Arrhenius (received Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1903) has given theoretical explanation and formulated the concept of activation energy.

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Liberman, M.A. (2021). Combustion Chemistry. In: Combustion Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85139-2_1

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