
%0 Journal Article
%A Drummond, LJ 
%A Kikkert, J 
%T Shock-initiated exothermic reactions. VI. The oxidation of ethylene oxide and cyclopropane
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1969/07/01
%V 22
%N 7
%P 1355-1362
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9691355
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9691355 
%X Mixtures of ethylene oxide or cyclopropane with oxygen and argon were ignited with reflected shock waves In a shock tube. The temperature dependences of the ignition delay and the growth of light emitted during the induction period to explosion of C2H4O-O2 mixtures indicate that the rate-controlling reaction is that of formaldehyde oxidation. The temperature dependence of induction periods for C3H6-O2 mixtures suggests that a complicated but undetermined mechanism controls the delay to ignition. 
