What’s on the Catalysts poster
A 5-row table: Process · Catalyst · Makes.
Industrial catalysts worth knowing by name.
- Haber — Iron — Ammonia
- Contact — Vanadium(V) oxide — Sulfuric acid
- Catalytic cracking — Zeolite — Shorter alkanes, alkenes
- Hydrogenation — Nickel — Margarine
- Catalytic converter — Platinum, rhodium — Reduces exhaust pollutants
Heterogeneous catalysts work by adsorption onto active sites. Catalyst poisoning blocks those sites — which is why leaded petrol destroys converters.
Questions about the Catalysts poster
- What’s on the Catalysts poster?
- A 5-row table: Process · Catalyst · Makes. Industrial catalysts worth knowing by name. Haber — Iron — Ammonia; Contact — Vanadium(V) oxide — Sulfuric acid; Catalytic cracking — Zeolite — Shorter alkanes, alkenes; Hydrogenation — Nickel — Margarine; Catalytic converter — Platinum, rhodium — Reduces exhaust pollutants. Heterogeneous catalysts work by adsorption onto active sites. Catalyst poisoning blocks those sites — which is why leaded petrol destroys converters.
- Who is the Catalysts poster for?
- Catalysts belongs to the Chemistry section rather than to a school year, because physical science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning inorganic can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Catalysts poster?
- A catalyst lowers activation energy by providing a different pathway. It is not consumed. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Catalysts belongs on the wall where that physical science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Catalysts?
- Industrial Chemistry, Complex Ions and Electrolysis sit alongside Catalysts in the Chemistry section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Industrial ChemistryComplex IonsElectrolysis
- Is the Catalysts poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Catalysts downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Chemistry section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Catalysts poster print at?
- Catalysts is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Catalysts loses nothing.Printing guide
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