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RECENTLY, H. J. Schumacher1 has given his reasons for regarding the interpretation of the results obtained by me2 as incompatible with the findings of other investigators. The essential difference between these results2 and those of Glissmann and Schumacher3 lies in the absolute rates of decomposition. It is possible that in the vessel employed, part of the measured decomposition was due to surface activation, the ratios of rates for the different temperatures yielding an apparent heat of activation (19,000 cal.) less than the recognised endothermic heat of reaction of the gas reaction (24,000 cal.). The inert gas effects, however, both accelerating and retarding, can scarcely be related to a surface decomposition in itself, but must be gas phase processes.
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RITCHIE, M. Thermal Decomposition of Ozone. Nature 136, 221 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136221a0
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