Polymer Formation in Hydrocarbon Flames
- 1 May 1952
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 20 (5) , 899-904
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1700591
Abstract
A theory is developed to account for certain experimental phenomena occurring in hydrocarbon flames. It postulates the formation of highly unsaturated chain‐polymers and their subsequent rapid breakdown to active fragments and oxidation of these. The theory is applied to a number of examples of experimental data on hydrocarbon flames. A mathematical discussion of the breakdown of chain‐polymers by self‐oscillation is given, using a classical model, and the relation between the theory and the experimental data is discussed with reference to earlier work on unimolecular decomposition.Keywords
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