Action on the American Chemical Front

Stability of Concentrated Hydrogen Peroxide Solutions

“…Furthermore, an adequate knowledge of the mechanism of the stabilization processes in the presence of known impurities is of primary interest and much thought and effort have been given to the attempt to secure a completely satisfactory explanation of the phenomena here involved. [The results of certain studies of the mechanism of catalysis of the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide solutions, carried out by allied groups of investigators, have recently been published (Í, 10).} EXPERIMENTAL PREPARATION OF SOLUTIONS Most of the experimental work was carried out with peroxide samples obtained by the fractional distillation of 90% unstabilized peroxide (from Buffalo Electro-Chemical Company, socalled Becco).…”