In reply to Jones Beene's message of Thu, 9 Jul 2015 07:44:10 -0700: Hi, [snip] >In Randell Mills experiments, having many catalysts working together seems >to be highly preferable to having only a few I mentioned this to Mills years ago, and also posted it on this list IIRC. I suspect the reason is that the "energy hole" of a catalyst never quite matches exactly, so a small amount of kinetic energy is needed to make up the difference. This means that different catalysts work better at different temperatures, so a mixture tends to cover a larger temperature range and also caters for a temperature rise due to energy released by the reactions.
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