Abstract
IN the current issue of the Journal of the Chemical Society (Jan. 1928), Dr. G. B. Maxwell and Prof. R. V. Wheeler have published a paper entitled “The Pressures produced on Inflammation of Mixtures of (a) Carbon Monoxide and Air, and (b) Hydrogen and Air in a Closed Vessel.” From their carbon monoxide—air results they deduce the dissociation of carbon dioxide and offer some criticism of Fenning and Tizard's recent work (Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 115, 318; 1927). One of us has already written a criticism of Fenning and Tizard's paper (see NATURE, July 30, 1927), and we have nothing to add to the views offered in that letter, except to express the opinion that dissociation in a gaseous mixture undergoing combustion is probably very different from that in a gas heated by external means. We note with interest that the Sheffield school now recognises the reality of incomplete combustion at the moment of maximum pressure, at any rate in carbon monoxide-air explosions.
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