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THE production of charged entities during combustion is well known1, and some of these entities have proved to be gaseous ions of low molecular weight containing carbon and hydrogen or oxygen and hydrogen2. It is known that ionization takes place in explosion motors and it is used, for example, to detect ignition induced by deposits3. Jet aeroplanes are reported to become charged electrically4. Part of the charging current (about 500 (µamp.) might be due to the preponderance of free charges of a certain sign in the exhaust gases.
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WESTERMARK, T. Detection of Free Charges from Motor-Car Exhaust Gases. Nature 189, 910 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/189910a0
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