In reply to Jones Beene's message of Fri, 16 May 2008 07:45:06 -0700 (PDT): Hi, [snip] >Now down to the nitty-gritty. Here is the recent >journal article (letter) of interest (from Taiwan): > >http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/orlef7/2007/9/i10/abs/ol070597o.html > >"Hydrothermal Reactions from Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate >to Phenol" Tian, Yuan, et al. > >Now- you tell me- am "I reading too much" into the >energy implication of this development ? Maybe. [snip] One is forced to wonder where all the Oxygen went. Without having read the actual paper, my guess would be that it combined with the Fe to form Fe2O3 (rust).
After all, something had to reduce the CO2 in bicarbonate. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk The shrub is a plant.
