Abstract
The rate of the oxidation of squalene was examined in the batch reactor, in which oxygen consumption was continuously measured to compute peroxide formed. Two oxidation steps were observed in the systems. The rate for the later of these periods (hereafter called acceleration period) is greater than 103 times of that of the early (hereafter called induction) of them. The time length for the induction periods decreased with the reaction temperature and the concentration of unreacted sites. The overall rates of both period were expressed by the first order of the concentration of unreacted sites. The reaction process of both periods were interpreted by some steps of the excitation of reaction sites and chain reactions for excited species. The reaction constants for both reactions were determined by the function of temperature.
