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      515.  ------.  [DREYFUS, H.]  Acetic Acid.  United States Patent   1,896,224, Feb. 7, 1933; appl. filed May 27, 1926.  Serial No. 112,166.  Chem. Abs., vol. 27, 1933. P. 2458.

            Mixture of about equimolecular proportions of H2 and CO is heated under pressure to 100°-450° in the presence of a contact mass containing a metal acetate or a metal compound capable of forming an acetate decomposable at temperatures < 450°.