Abstract

IT has long been appreciated that surface compounds as well as gaseous oxides are formed when carbons and oxygen interact. Rhead and Wheeler's original suggestion1 that the so-called surface oxides are intermediates in the overall reaction mechanism is not borne out by more recent work2,3, which shows that at least a proportion of the oxides should be regarded as by-products of the main reaction.

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