THE GASEOUS EXPLOSIVE REACTION--A STUDY OF THE KININXCS OF co~n?osmlzImms

Th [s report deals ‘witli W i-esults of a series oj siudie ~ of the Zinefics of gaseous explosire reac-tions where fhe juel under ob.wrcation, instead oj being a simple gas, is a hnown rmldure of simple yzses. In the practical application oj the gaseous explosire reaction as a source of power in the gas engine, the juels employed are composite, with ehurackristim ~hat are apt to be due to the ch.aracter-ktics of ~heir components and hence may be somewhat complez. The simplest prob?em that could be proposed in an investigation either of the thermodynamics or hinetics oj the gaseous ezplosire reaction of a composife fuel would seem to be a separate study of the reaction characteristics of eacfi. compotient qf the fuel and then a study of the reaction characteristics of the various known mixtures of those components forming composite fuels more and more compkc. This is the order fo?loxed in the simple studies herein described. The method and device employed in making these studies were a modifkation, to meet kinetic principles, of those found so effective by Nemst and his students in investigating the thermodynamics of gaseous exp~osive reactions. Instead of a spherical bomb of constant wlume with central iGtition made use of by those investigators, a trm~parent bomb of constant pressure was substituted. This change eliminated irregularities in pressure and in the mas