Nikolay Semenov

Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1956

Some Problems Relating to Chain Reactions and to the Theory of Combustion

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From Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1942-1962, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1964

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