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Mixtures of CO and H₂ for the catalytic production of MeOH and other oxygenated organic compounds are obtained by the incomplete combustion of CH₄, which may be mixed with about 1/2 its volume of O₂ and the mixture injected into a mass of coke maintained at about 1,000°.