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      614.  ------.  [ELWORTHY, H. S.]  [Methane Production.]  German Patent 191,026, Aug. 1, 1905.  Chem. Abs., vol. 2, 1908, p. 1633.

            Process of producing a gas, composed principally of CH4, by leading a mixture of the oxides of C and H2 in the heat over catalytic metals (Ni or the like), wherein the C oxides and H2 required in the process are obtained in the known manner by heating a mixture of water gas and steam with a reduction of H2O to H2 and oxidation of CO to CO2 and the separation of the latter.