In reply to Mike Carrell's message of Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:52:51 -0400: Hi, [snip] >Peter Zimmerman advanced the 'contact' agument on another forum some time >ago. The radii of a H atom and typical catalyst, such as Ar+, are so small >that if contact were required, the probability of reaction would be >vanishingly small.
The probability of reaction is quite small, in fact Ar+ is not a very good catalyst. Nevertheless, contacts happen all the time, otherwise gas pressure wouldn't exist. >Since Ar+ experimetally catalyzes H, that argument is >void. That remains to be seen. >It is more likely that the transfer is a near-field phenomenon that >can be approached from antenna theory, but I do not know of any detailed >work on such. Would such allow for transfer of angular momentum? Regards, Robin van Spaandonk The shrub is a plant.
