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Preface
A theory if you hold it hard enough
And long enough gets rated as a creed
Robert Frost
The idea of intelligent and efficient two-step bustion with the
generation of charged particles as intermediates was conceived in 1838 by
a Swiss professor of chemistry Christian Friedrich Schoenbein and realized
by Sir William Grove (Bossel, 2000). In spite of this long history, huge
worldwid