PATENTS

2836.  RUBEN, S.  Promoting Reactions Between Gases by High-Frequency Currents.  United States Patent 1,431,047, Oct. 3, 1922.  Chem. Abs., vol. 16, 1922, p. 3818.

            Gases, for example, CO and H2 to produce CH2O, which are to react upon each other, are brought into contact with each other in a conductive liquid, for example, an aqueous electrolyte, through which a high-frequency current is passed.