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WE recently reported1 the results of temperature measurements made by means of very fine quartz-coated platinum wires in the flame gases resulting from the combustion of hydrocarbon-air mixtures in a specially constructed burner. From these measurements estimates were made of the proportion of the heat of combustion which was unreleased in the flame gases for the purpose of increasing their temperature. The unreleased energy, we believe, is due partly to latent energy held in stable form in some of the newly formed tri-atomic molecules and partly to abnormal dissociation resulting therefrom. It varied from about 10 per cent to rather more than 20 per cent of the heat of combustion.
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DAVID, W., MANN, J. Unreleased Energy in Flame Gases. Nature 154, 115 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154115a0
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