THAT the catalytic decomposition of hydrogen peroxide by catalase requires the presence of molecular oxygen was demonstrated by a number of manometric experiments previously described 1. Being, ...

IT was previously shown 1,2 that methæmoglobin forms with hydrogen peroxide and ethyl hydroperoxide reversible compounds analogous to those which it forms with cyanide, sulphide, azide and fluoride.

When you think of peroxide, you think of those brown bottles from the drugstore. Some people use it like cheap bleach to lighten hair color, but mostly it’s poured on wounds as a disinfectant. Going ...

The question of whether water can form hydrogen peroxide should be answered by thermodynamics (see C&EN, June 13, 2022, page 3). If a reaction is possible (spontaneous), then the change in the Gibbs ...