Carbon monoxide decarbonization

A sample of redistilled material in a screw capped bottle exploded 15 weeks after capping. This was attributed to development of internal pressure (probably of hydrogen chloride arising from hydrolysis, and perhaps also of chloromethane from scission). (The editor has also known methoxyacetic mixed anhydrides to decarbon-ylate, releasing carbon monoxide)... 

Oxygen, from the scrap, or the ore, or dissolved in the molten iron from air, reacts with the carbon present in the blast furnace melt to form carbon monoxide. As carbon monoxide bubbles up through the charge it stirs the fluid mass and aids in the rise of silica, manganese oxide, phosphorus oxides, etc., to form a slag layer. While these reactions are going on, limestone decarbonization also occurs and the carbon dioxide formed further contributes to the carbon monoxide formed by its conversion with dissolved carbon (Eqs. 14.1, 14.24). 

Palladium on silica gel or charcoal has been found to promote tire decarbonization of carbon monoxide,00 whereas a nickel catalyst consisting... 

These values indicate that there is a considerable tendency for carbon monoxide to decarbonize to carbon dioxide at temperatures in the range used in the ordinary vapor phase synthesis work, i.e., 300° to 650° C. At higher temperatures the tendency reverses and carbon dioxide reacts... 

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