Combustion Metrology: A Manifesto.
Combustion Metrology: A Manifesto.
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Smyth, K. C.
Combustion Science and Technology, Vol. 98, 341-347,
1994.
Keywords:
combustion; turbulence; decomposition
Abstract:
In the fall of 1985 Jene Golovchenko from Bell
Laboratories presented a staff colloquium at the
National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) on scanning
tunnelling microscopy. This was an exciting time in
surface science, since the tunnelling microscope was
yielding such fundamentally new insights that the Nobel
Prize would soon be awarded for its invention and
application. In his seminar Golovchenko made a key
point that has stuck with me ever since. His argument
went something like this: Investigations of surface
processes had been largely empirical and had made little
headway before the advent of scanning tunneling
microscopy. The field simply could not progress beyond
a certain point without a detailed knowledge at the
scale of atomic dimensions. Tunnelling microscopy was
unleashing a flood of information which was forming the
basis of a new surface science.
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