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MANY investigations have indicated that in the reaction zone of premixed hydrocarbon flames there is a very high concentration of ionized particles, so much so that the conductivity of the zone has been used to locate accurately its position1,2. The nature and origin of the ions has, however, remained obscure, since the concentration is too large to be a result only of thermal ionization.
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KNEWSTUBB, P., SUGDEN, T. Mass-Spectrometric Observations of Ions in Hydrocarbon Flames. Nature 181, 1261 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1811261a0
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