Compensation effect in the kinetics of the catalysed oxidation of carbon

Abstract

A pattern of behaviour amongst catalysts in the catalysed oxidation of carbons has been identified. A link between the rates of the catalysed and uncatalysed reactions in these systems has been established. A phenomenological model has been developed which combines the principal results of bulk oxidation of heavily impregnated carbons and of electron microscopy experiments and which unites a large body of data under one interpretative umbrella.