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MESSRS. EGERTON and Ubbelohde appear to agree that flame temperatures determined by the sodium line reversal method may be too high. The evidence that they are, in general, too high, seems to me to be overwhelming and has been recently reviewed1. They are not only in general too high (by some hundreds of degrees centigrade) when compared with temperatures determined by the platinum resistance method, but sometimes also when compared with the ideal calculated temperatures.
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DAVID, W. [Letters to the Editor]. Nature 134, 848 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134848b0
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