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 ...

IN NATURE of Nov. 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 ...