“…Evidence for N 2 dissociation as the rate limiting step has been derived from a large number of experimental studies, such as measurements of isotopic exchange rates [356,482,521,526,532,667], measurements of the isotopic exchange between NH3 and N* [507,528,668], measurements of the stochiometric number [664] and measurements ofthe rate of dissolution ofN in bulk Fe from N z and from NH3 [423]. Further evidence has been found by the agreement between the rates of N2 chemisorption and NH3 synthesis [669], the agreement between adsorption rates and surface coverages [508], the agreement between the rate of synthesis for NH3 and the coverage by N* [191], by int~rpretation of reaction orders for NH3 synthesis [670,664] and NH3 decomposition [620], by the value of the activation energy [664] and activation entropy [597,668] for NH3 synthesis, and by the agreement between the calculated density of sites and crystallography [664].…”