976. ---------------.[FISCHER, F AND BAHR, H.] [Reaction of Methane and Lower Homologs With Carbon Monoxide and Dioxide on Various Catalysts.] Ges. Abhandl. Kenntnis Kohle, vol. 8, 1929, pp. 279-281; Chem. Zentralb., 1930, I, p. 31; Chem. Abs., vol. 25, 1931, p. 2411.

976. ---------------. [FISCHER, F AND BAHR, H.] [Reaction of Methane and Lower Homologs With Carbon Monoxide and Dioxide on Various Catalysts.] Ges. Abhandl. Kenntnis Kohle, vol. 8, 1929, pp. 279-281; Chem. Zentralb., 1930, I, p. 31; Chem. Abs., vol. 25, 1931, p. 2411.

Repetition of Berthelot’s experiment in which C₃H₆ was formed when 1 vol. CO and 2 vol. CH₄ were conducted through a glowing glass tube filled with pumice, yielded the same phenomenon. It was impossible to identify the hydrocarbon on account of the small quantity obtained. In another experiment, the same mixture of CH₄ and CO was conducted over various catalysts at different temperatures. CO was decomposed with formation of CO₂, CH₄ dissociated partly into C and H₂, but a reaction between CH₄ and CO was scarcely detectable. When the waste gas from a catalyst for the synthesis of mineral oil was conducted over metallic sponge Fe at 900°, the greatest part of the CO₂ was reduced to CO; gasol, heavy hydrocarbons, and a fraction of H₂ disappeared, and a large quantity of H₂O was formed.