Conclusions
Water participates in the methane decomposition reaction of sodium acetate, forming the source of the methane hydrogen atoms.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 7, pp. 1278–1281, July, 1966.
The authors give their sincere thanks to M. V. Tikhomirov for the mass-speetrometric analysis.
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Yakerson, V.I., Rubinshtein, A.M. Mechanism of the methane decomposition of sodium acetate. Russ Chem Bull 15, 1233–1235 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00847777
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