The complete oxidation of methane over palladium, platinum, rhodium and iridium has been studied using a microcalorimetric technique. The results indicated that methane may be adsorbed on two types of reaction site, one of which also adsorbs oxygen. The activation energies are proportional to the Pauling bond energies of the oxygen-metal bond in the region where the order in oxygen is low.
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Firth et al. (1969) studied this question.
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