PATENTS

      1584.  ------.  [I. G. FARBENINDUSTRIE, A. G.]  [Synthesis of Hydrocarbons.]  German Patent Appl. I 54,112. no date (Cl. IV d-12 o).  Auszüge deut.  Patent-Anmeldungen. vol. 6. p. 90.

            Hydrocarbons and their oxygenated derivatives are produced from CO and H2 while feeding small amounts of such metal compounds as are decomposed at the operating temperature with formation of metals.