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Science 19 June 1964:
Vol. 144. no. 3625, pp. 1451 - 1452
DOI: 10.1126/science.144.3625.1451
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Petroleum Hydrocarbons: Generation from Fatty Acid

J. W. Jurg 1 and E. Eisma 1

1 Koninklijke/ Shell Exploratie en Produktie Laboratorium, Rijswijk, Netherlands

In the presence or absence of water, behenic acid generates hydrocarbons during heating at 200° C with bentonite. Without water the ratio of isobutane or isopentane to normal butane or normal pentane is much higher than with water. Besides C21. and lower n-alkanes, n-alkanes with 22 to 34 carbon atoms are also formed.


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