Open AccessGaseous combustion at high pressures. Part XV.— The formation of nitric oxide in carbonic oxide-oxygen-nitrogen explosions
Publication year - 1933
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series a, containing papers of a mathematical and physical character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9150
pISSN - 0950-1207
DOI - 10.1098/rspa.1933.0005
Subject(s) - nitrogen , oxygen , chemistry , volume (thermodynamics) , combustion , oxide , nitric oxide , thermodynamics , organic chemistry , physics
In previous papers of this series it was shown that the secondary formation of nitric oxide in CO-O2 -N2 explosions, when oxygen is present in excess of that required to burn all the carbonic oxide, rapidly increases with the density of the medium, the optimum composition of the medium for the purpose being 2CO + 3O2 + 2N2 . The former experiments were carried out, in bombs Nos. 2 and 3, the 7·5 cm. diameter spherical explosion chambers of which were each of 240 c.c. capacity with a surface/volume ratio 0·78, under conditions permitting of no acceleration in the normal rate of cooling down of the hot products from the maximum explosion temperature.