The Basis and Applications of Heterogeneous Catalysis

by Michael Bowker

Catalysis is one of the most important technologies in our modern world. We depend on it to produce materials, such as plastics, from oil; we depend on it to produce fuel to power our cars; we depend on it to remove the pollutants emitted from the engines of those cars; we even depend on it
for the functioning and growth of our own bodies. It is therefore very important that we ask ourselves the question, 'what is catalysis?' and this book does...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198559585
• ISBN13: 9780198559580
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.5" x 9.3"