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THE well-known dissociative adsorption of hydrogen on transition metal films has been reported1 not to occur on evaporated copper films. Copper is catalytically active in hydrogenation reactions, and copper powders prepared by reduction of the oxide have been shown2 to adsorb hydrogen. It is not certain that the surfaces were clean and it has been suggested3 that the observed adsorption may be due to impurities. Kwan4 found a slight activated chemisorption at high temperatures on very carefully reduced copper powder.
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PRITCHARD, J. Activated Chemisorption of Hydrogen on Copper Films. Nature 205, 1208 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/2051208a0
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