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X. Gaseous Combustion at High Pressures. 



By WILLIAM ARTHUR BONE, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.S., formerly Livesey Professor oj 

 Coal Gas and Fuel Industries at the University of Leeds, now Professor oj 

 Chemical Tecltnology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, 

 London, in collaboration with HAMILTON DAVIES, B.Sc., H. H. GRAY, It.Sc., 

 HERBERT H. HENSTOCK, M.Sc., Ph.D., and J. B. DAWSON, R.Sc., formerly of 

 the Fuel Department in the University of Leeds. 



Received December 22, 1914, Read February IS, 1915. 



CONTENTS. 



Page 



PART I. Introduction, description of apparatus and methods 275 



II. Explosion of methane with less than its own volume of oxygen (with Messrs. HAMILTON 



DAVIES and H. H. GRAY) 288 



III. Experiments showing the relative affinities of methane, hydrogen, and carbon 



monoxide for oxygen in explosions, and conclusions arising therefrom as to 



the mode of combustion of hydrogen (with Messrs. HAMILTON DAVIES and 



H. H. GRAY) 290 



,, IV. Experiments on the relative affinities of methane and carbon monoxide for oxygen in 



explosions (with Messrs. HAMILTON DAVIES and H. H. GRAY) 304 



,, V. Experiments -with mixtures of ethylene, hydrogen and oxygen of the type 



C..,H 4 + 0. 2 + a:H 2 (with Messrs. H. H. GRAY and J. B. DAWSON) 308 



VI. Experiments on the explosion of ethane with its own volume of oxygen (with 



Dr. H. H. HENSTOCK) 310 



,, VII. Pressure experiments (with Messrs. H. H. GRAY and J. B. DAWSON) 313 



INTRODUCTION. 



IN continuation of my previous work upon the mechanism of combustion,* I was 

 enabled, in 1906, with the aid of funds provided by the Government Grant Committee 

 to instal at Leeds University a complete apparatus for the study of- gaseous 



* 'Trans. Chem. Soc.,' 1902, vol. 81, p. 535; 1903, vol. 83, p. 1074; 1904, vol. 85, pp. 693 and 1637; 

 1905, vol. 87, pp. 910 and 1232 ; 1906, vol. 89, pp. 652, 660, 939 and 1614. 



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