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THE activation of the adsorbate recently described in NATURE1 was explained by the formation of an adsorption complex E S+ in which the adsorbed molecule S has gained a quantum of rotation-vibrational energy from the surface molecule E. This complex will be dissociated into E+S+ by the supply to it of a quantity of energy equal to that transferred from E to S in the formation of the complex. If the energy of activation of the free molecules S+ be the critical increment of one of the reactions of the substance S, that reaction will be promoted by the surface of E molecules.
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NATURE, 136, 28, July 6, 1935.
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BALY, E. Kinetics of Heterogeneous Catalysis and of Enzyme Action. Nature 136, 146 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136146a0
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