Effect of Crystal Orientation on the Activation Energy for the Catalytic Decomposition of Formic Acid on Silver
- 1 August 1955
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 23 (8) , 1486-1490
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1742335
Abstract
Single crystalline sheets of silver have been used as catalysts for the decomposition of formic acid. The activation energy for the zero‐order reaction was found to vary from 16.0 kcal/mole with a crystal face close to {111} to 30.4 kcal/mole with a crystal face close to {110}.Keywords
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