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IN the course of our investigations on the hydrolysis of acetone in ultra-violet light, we have measured the effect of the variation of light intensity on this reaction and found a direct proportionality between incident light intensity and reaction velocity. Two sets of experiments were carried out, in one of which the intensity was varied by means of a rotating sector and in the other by using diaphragms of different apertures. The results, in both cases, give a fairly constant value of the ratio, change/intensity. The detailed results of these experiments and their discussion will be published shortly elsewhere.
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Jour. Chem. Soc., 129, 1611; 1926.
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QURESHI, M., TAHER, N. Hydrolysis of Acetone in Ultra-Violet Light. Nature 127, 522 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127522b0
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