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Subject: Why is manganese dioxide a good catalyst for hydrogen peroxide?

Date: Wed Sep 27 15:53:39 2000
Posted by Clare
Grade level: 10-12 School: No school entered.
City: London State/Province: No state entered. Country: No country entered.
Area of science: Chemistry
ID: 970084419.Ch
Message:

I am doing a chemistry investigation and was going to investigate whether 
other compounds would work as well.  My teacher said that to do this, I 
would need to understand why manganese dioxide was such a good catalyst eg 
is it because of it's structure, bonding, electron arrangement, etc?


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