FOR many years the slow oxidation of hydrocarbons has been thought to be a reaction taking place at a surface. We have succeeded in demonstrating the wholly homogeneous character of a hydrocarbon ...

16, p. 761, Messrs. G. B. Kistiakowsky and S. Lenher announce that they have recently demonstrated that “The oxidation of acetylene by oxygen proceeds at 250°-315° through the stages of ...