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IT is not correct to say that the work from this laboratory referred to is based upon the ‘assumptions’ (1), (2) and (3) of the communication from Mr. C. G. Silcocks and Prof. M. W. Travers. That the reactions are partly chain reactions, and that in many cases pressure change is quantitatively proportional to decrease in amount of original paraffin, represent considered conclusions from detailed experiment. (1) has never been stated: the formation of methane and olefine has been given as one of several simultaneous modes of decomposition of the higher paraffins.
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HINSHELWOOD, C., DANBY, C. Thermal Decomposition of Normal Paraffins. Nature 170, 1029 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/1701029a0
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