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Published online 29 August 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020826-5

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Hydrogen from catalytic reforming of biomass-derived hydrocarbons in liquid water

Platinum extracts green fuel from glucose.

Chemists in the United States have developed a way of making hydrogen from plant matter. It is a step towards hydrogen becoming cheap and plentiful enough for it to be used as non-polluting fuel.

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