Catalysis: Science and Technology - John R. Anderson, Michel Boudart - Google Books

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Catalytic oxidation processes are bf central importance to a substantial part of large-scale chemical industry. Indeed, this area of industrial catalysis has an extremely long history which stretches back well into the last century. The development and…