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Kinetics of the Iodine-Oxalate Reaction

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SINCE 1916, when one of us1 reported that this reaction is very sensitive to light and that the dark reaction has a high temperature coefficient, a large amount of work has been carried out on this chemical change by several chemists2.

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DHAR, N., BHATTACHARYA, A. & MUKERJI, B. Kinetics of the Iodine-Oxalate Reaction. Nature 131, 840–841 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131840b0

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