“…In general, previous shock tube measurements of soot formation have been done with gas-phase species highly diluted in argon and (sometimes) nitrogen. Fuels that have been considered include methane {Lester and Wittig, 1975;Wittig et al, 1990), acetylene {Böhm et al, 1998Cundall et al, 1978;Frenklach et al, 1984aFrenklach et al, , 1984bFussey et al, 1978;Knorre et al, 1996), ethylene {Cundall et al, 1978Fussey et al, 1978), ethane {Fussey et al, 1978), benzene {Böhm et al, 1998Frenklach et al, 1984a;Knorre et al, 1996;Simmons andWilliams, 1988), n-heptane {Kellerer et al, 1996;Kellerer and Wittig, 1997;Yao et al, 1995), and toluene {Frenklach et al, 1983, 1984aKellerer and Wittig, 1997;Rawlins et al, 1984;Simmons and Williams, 1988;Wang et al, 1981). Miscellaneous compounds such as phenyl iodide {Graham and Homer, 1973), ethylbenzene and cycloheptatriene {Graham et al, 1975), allene and 1,3-butadiene {Frenklach et al, 1984a, and iron pentacarbonyl {Tanke et al, 1998), among others, have also been studied.…”