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Branched-chain explosions
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Semenov's branching-versus-termination criterion and the first and
second explosion limits of hydrogen-oxygen mixtures.


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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="In the H2/O2 chain the branching step H + O_2 \to OH + O (net two extra H atoms per event) competes with H loss at the vessel wall and with the three-body H + O_2 + M \to HO_2 + M. Semenov&#x27;s net branching factor (~chemistrykit.kinetics.ChainBranchingExplosion.branching_factor),">

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  :doc:`/api/gallery/kinetics/explosions/plot_01_h2_o2_explosion_peninsula`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">The hydrogen-oxygen explosion peninsula</div>
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