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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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ARTHUR, J., NEWITT, E. & RAFTERY, M. Influence of Surface Oxygen in the Activation of Carbonized Coals by Partial Combustion. Nature 178, 157–158 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178157b0
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