Some remarks on the origin of weak chemiluminescence during polymer oxidation

Various kinetic expressions for the autoxidation of relatively simple hydrocarbons, based on chemiluminescence studies, were obtained by Russian workers. They assumed that the emitted light intensity, I, was a function of RO 2 • 2 in order to explain their experimental data. This paper purports to show that much of their kinetic data can also be explained by assuming that I is a function of [RO 2 H].