2171.     MAQUENNE, L.  [Action of the Oxides of Carbon on Water Vapor.]  Ber. deut. chem. Gesell., vol. 16, 1883, p. 1358; Bull. soc. chim., vol. 39, Ser. 2, 1883, pp. 308-309; Jour. Chem. Soc., 1883, p. 860.

        CO reacts with H₂O at 150° over Pt sponge so that after 30 hr. all the CO₂ is converted into CO and H₂.  It is concluded that the system CO₂+H₂ is stable below the dissociation temperature of CO₂; and that CO is itself at low temperature a stronger reduction agent than H₂.