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Density of Acetylene

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THE literature values for the density of gaseous acetylene are markedly discordant. The principal data, in order of publication, are summarized in Table 1 ; the values given are at g = 980.665 cm./sec.2 unless otherwise indicated.

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BOTTOMLEY, G., REEVES, C. & SEIFLOW, G. Density of Acetylene. Nature 182, 596–597 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/182596b0

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