[M.D. Holloway]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

Try starting off with Kelvin temperature. Celsius is just an arbitrary temperature set at the freezing point of distilled water at STP. You might also try a natural log or log 10 on the temperature and/or molecular weight. Also, it's the H-C bonds that provide the oxidation, not the C-C bonds. 4 H-C bonds for methane and 26 for tetradecane. Good luck because up to pentane, I believe, you have a gas and beyond that they're liquids at STP, I think.

I'll give it some more thought tonight.

yup - the slope will be relative right? doing a log will make it linear which is easier on the eyes I guess. I am actually trying to figuer out something for oils. The gases were just easy to use to try to get a simple expression down.

Thanks for your help.