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PROF. H. S. TAYLOR, in a letter to NATURE of May 21, directed attention to work going on in his laboratory and continued in Sweden by Dr. Bockstrm (Medd. K. Nobel Inst., 6, 15, and 16, 1927). Dr. Bockstrm has found that the photochemical oxidation of benzaldehyde in the liquid state is a chain reaction, and since the effect of inhibitors is the same for the photochemical as for the thermal reaction, the latter is almost certainly a chain reaction (J.A.C.S., 49, 1460; 1927). In our work on the combustion of hydrocarbons below their igniting temperatures, the effect of inhibitors (such as phenol or aniline) on the gaseous oxidation appears to be similar to their effect on the oxidation of benzaldehyde in the liquid state. Therefore, probably, the mechanism of oxidation is the same.
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EGERTON, A. Flame and Combustion. Nature 121, 10 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121010a0
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