AFTER flame has travelled through a homogeneous inflammable mixture, the gases left behind ('flame gases') rapidly reach what is for all practical purposes a state of equilibrium. The flame gases ...

Flames are created when two gases react to produce heat and light. Different reactions produce different quantities of heat so, no, not all flames are the same temperature. Anyone who has passed their ...

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PROF. W. T. DAVID and his co-workers have published a moving-film record of the passage of flame gases along a glass tube 1. Such records have frequently appeared elsewhere 2, but the explanation ...