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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 ...

Vibrio harveyi is the major causal organism of luminous vibriosis,' which causes potential devastation to diverse ranges of marine invertebrates over a wide geographical area. These microorganisms, ...

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2. Classify the objects or materials given below as opaque, transparent or translucent, luminous or non-luminous: Air, water, piece of rock, sheet of aluminium, mirror, wooden board, sheet of ...

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 ...