Photocatalytic and thermal catalytic decomposition of nitrous oxide on zinc oxide
Abstract
The thermal catalytic decomposition of N2O on ZnO in the range 370–430° is first order in N2O pressure and independent of O2 pressure while the photocatalytic reaction at the same temperatures obeys an expression of the type rate =kP(N2O)/k′+k″P(N2O)+k‴[P(O)2)]1/2.