Abstract
THE Committee on Contact Catalysis under the chairmanship of W.-D. Bancroft has performed an excellent piece of work in collecting together and commenting upon the interesting peculiarities of surfaces in affecting the rates of chemical change of reactants at, or in close proximity to, those surfaces. Whilst certain purists may object to the term ‘contact’ in connexion with reactions the velocities of which are accelerated by the presence of substances which, although taking part in the chemical change, are not present either in the eactants or products in stoichiometric quantities; yet the word possesses advantages in differentiating homogeneous reactions from, reactions heterogeneously accelerated.
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Fourth Report of the Committee on Contact Catalysis. By Hugh S. Taylor . Jour. Phys. Chem., xxx, 145, 171, Feb. 1926.
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RIDEAL, E. Contact Catalysis1. Nature 118, 285–286 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118285b0
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