>We don't use potassium hydroxide and I have no personal experience of its >use. I'm sure there are other people who read this who can be of more help. >However, you may have to explain what you mean by "good". Chemically, the >various methyl esters of palm-oil should not be influenced by the choice of >catalyst. Afterall, catalysts are not supposed to take place in a reaction >are they?
Not quite. Catalysts DO participate in reactions. What makes them catalysts (and not precursors or products) is that they are not consumed; instead, they are regenerated. Apparently, our "catalysts" ARE partially consumed. And it is not physically impossible for a reaction to show a preference for one catalyst over another. To take an extreme example, in organic chemistry some enzymes (organic catalysts) catalyze ONLY one reaction, and that reaction cannot even take place without its specific enzyme. Marc de Piolenc ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Free shipping on all inkjet cartridge & refill kit orders to US & Canada. Low prices up to 80% off. We have your brand: HP, Epson, Lexmark & more. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5510 http://us.click.yahoo.com/GHXcIA/n.WGAA/ySSFAA/9bTolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
