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AFTER flame has travelled through an inflammable gaseous mixture the gases remaining are not merely hot CO2, etc. They emit luminous radiation for a long time (if their temperature is kept up), their temperatures as determined by the sodium line reversal method are too high, and they have associated with them a long-lived latent energy which amounts to a considerable proportion of the heat of combustion. The evidence for this has been summarised in a recent article in the Engineer1.
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"Temperature and Latent Energy in Flame Gases”, Engineer, June 1, 1934.
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"Gaseous Combustion at High Pressures". Bone, Newitt and Townend . (Longmans, 1929.) Pp. 196.
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DAVID, W. Spectra and Latent Energy in Flame Gases. Nature 134, 663 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134663a0
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