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THE light emitted when luminol reacts with hydrogen peroxide is usually1 supposed to come from excited luminol molecules formed by the decomposition of a luminol peroxide2. However, Albrecht3 has proposed that luminol molecules are excited by di-imide, N2H2 formed during the oxidation of luminol by hydrogen peroxide. 
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METCALF, W., QUICKENDEN, T. Di-imide and the Chemiluminescence of Luminol. Nature 206, 506–507 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/206506b0
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