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AN outline of a theory of the behaviour of ‘antiknocks’, and of the character of the knocking type of explosion, was put forward in a lecture at the Royal Institution in 1928 (see supplement to NATURE of July 7, 1928). The ideas discussed were obtained by inference from a variety of experiments, rather than by direct demonstration. It was not demonstrated with any certitude, for example, that peroxides were formed during a knocking type of explosion in an engine cylinder; neither was it proved that the metallic ‘antiknocks’ were in an oxidised state before being effective as ‘antiknocks’ in the engine.
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EGERTON, A., SMITH, F. Hydrocarbon Combustion in an Engine. Nature 131, 725 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131725a0
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