290.    ---------------. [BONE, W. A.] Initial Formation of Methyl Alcohol in the Oxidation of Methane.  Nature, vol. 136, 1935, p. 910; Chem. Abs., vol. 30, 1936, p. 1735.

                   Explosions of 5 CH₄+2 O₂ mixtures yielded among the suddenly cooled products 0.13% MeOH and 0.03% HCHO.  Not the faintest trace of peroxide formation could be detected.  The MeOH is formed before the HCHO.

                   ---------------.  See abs. 2315.