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THE following experiments provide a new understanding of the so-called 'surface oxides' to which the essential role in the mechanism of the oxidation of carbon has long been attributed1.
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LETORT, M., MARTIN, J. Mechanism of the Combustion of Graphite. Nature 157, 874–875 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157874b0
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