1778: Lavoisier first describes his oxygen theory of combustion—whereby oxygen in air is the necessary component for combustion—not phlogiston in solids. It would be many more years before ...

Combustion is another name for burning. In a combustion reaction, fuel is burned and reacts with oxygen to release energy. Katie: Dr. Tim Gregory knows a thing or two about creating things that go ...

IT is well known that the chief product in the photochemical combination of hydrogen and oxygen is hydrogen peroxide ... both in slow combustion at 550° C. and 1 atmosphere pressure (Pease ...