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INTERACTION between flames and sound was first reported by John Leconte in 1858 and has since been studied by Rijke, Rayleigh, Tyndall, Andrade1 and many others. It was the subject of a special session at the fourth symposium of the Combustion Institute in 1952 under the heading “Oscillatory Combustion”.
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BABCOCK, W., BAKER, K. & CATTANEO, A. Musical Flames. Nature 216, 676–678 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216676b0
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