Open AccessFlame speeds during the "inflammation" of moist carbonic oxide-oxygen mixtures
Author(s) -
William A. Bone,
Bell John
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.1933.0199
Subject(s) - detonation , oxygen , oxide , chemistry , mineralogy , organic chemistry , explosive material
In a paper communicated to the Society three years ago by one of us (W. A. B.) and Fraser it was concluded that the maximum flame-speed in both the initial (i. e. , the inflammation) and the final (i.e. , detonation) phase of explosions of moist mixtures of carbonic oxide and oxygen is attained when the composition of the medium is approximately 75CO/25O2 . So far as "detonation" is concerned, this conclusion has recently been supported by the results of two series of experiments by Campbell, Whitworth, and Woodhead, whose observed maximum rates of detonation were of mixtures containing in the first series between 77·6 and 79·7 and in the second 75·2% if carbonic oxide, although their "peak" was not so pronounced as that observed in Bone and Fraser's experiments. Moreover, they differed from the late H. B. Dixon in finding no difference in velocity between "dry" and "moist" mixtures, a point of importance which now needs re-examination.