Direct Measurement of Key Molecule Will Increase Accuracy of Combustion Models (IMAGE)

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Direct Measurement of Key Molecule Will Increase Accuracy of Combustion Models

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Sandia National Laboratories chemist John Savee, left, identified cycloheptadiene as the best fuel for creating a detectable QOOH, and Sandia computational expert Ewa Papajak, right, and her adviser, Judit Zádor, used quantum chemistry to explain the mechanism of the reaction. Savee and Papajak appear in front of an instrument, the Multiplexed Photoionization Mass Spectrometer in the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, that took direct measurements.

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