“…However, if that were the explanation, then the same molecular species would also be detected following exposure at higher temperatures, and this is not the case. The results all indicate that P473 K the fraction of surviving NO molecules abruptly drops, which corresponds fairly closely to the temperature for NO desorption on high-coverage Rh(0 0 1) and Rh(1 1 1) single-crystal surfaces of 450 K [43]. Moreover, at 473 K the Pt-Rh-Ir{0 0 1} surface becomes heavily covered in oxygen species, even more so at 573 K. The oxygen and oxide coverage at 473/573 K was 4/ 10 times respectively greater than on Pt-Rh.…”