Excerpt from The Chemistry of Combustion This little book is the outcome of a series of lectures delivered to my senior Students in the Chemical Department of the Birmingham Municipal Technical School during the Session 1920 to 1921. There appeared to be no small Text-book or Monograph to. Which the students could be referred dealing with the subject in its more modern aspect, and it was felt that the publication of my lectures might serve to fill, however imperfectly, a very Obvious gap in our literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.