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COMPREHENSIVE CHEMICAL KINETICS COMPREHENSIVE Section 1. THE PRACTICE AND THEORY OF KINETICS Volume I The Practice of Kinetics Volume 2 The Theory of Kinetics Volume 3 The Formation and Decay of Excited Species Section 2. HOMOGENEOUS DECOMPOSITION AND ISOMERISATION REACTIONS Volume 4 Decomposition of Inorganic and Organometallic Substances Volume 5 Decomposition and Isomerisation Reactions of Organic Compounds Section 3. INORGANIC REACTIONS Volume 6 Reactions of Non-metallic Inorganic Substances Volume 7 Reactions of Metals and their Compounds Section 4. ORGANIC REACTIONS (6 volumes) Section 5. POLYMERISATION REACTIONS (2 volumes) Section 6. OXIDATION AND COMBUSTION REACTIONS (2 volumes) Section 7. SELECTED ELEMENTARY REACTIONS (2 volumes) Additional Sections HETEROGENEOUS REACTIONS SOLID STATE REACTIONS KINETICS AND TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESSES CHEMICAL KINETICS EDITED BY C. H. BAMFORD M.A.,Ph.D.,Sc.D. (Cantab.), F.R.I.C., F.R.S. Campbell-BrownProfessor of Industrial Chemistry, University of Liverpool AND C. F. H. TIPPER Ph.D. (Bristol). D.Sc. (Edinburgh) Senior Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, University of Liverpool VOLUME 3 THE FORMATION AND DECAY OF EXCITED SPECIES ELSEVIER PUBLISHING COMPANY - - AMSTERDAM LONDON NEW YORK 1969 ELSEVIER P U B L I S H I N G C O M P A N Y t1a6 JAN V A N O A L E N S T R A A T P.O. BOX 211, AMSTERDAM, T H E N E T H E R L A N D S ELSEVIER P U B L I S H I N G CO. LTD. B A R K I N G , ESSEX, E N G L A N D AMERICAN ELSEVIER P U B L I S H I N G COMPANY, INC. 62 V A N D E R B I L T A V E N U E N E W YORK, N E W Y O R K 10017 L I B R A R Y OF C O N G R E S S C A R D N U M B E R 68-29646 S T A N D A R D BOOK NUMBER 444-40802-9 W I T H 53 I L L U S T R A T I O N S A N D COPYRIGHT