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isoprophlexyesterday at 4:44 PM1 replyview on HN

In addition to what condensedcrab and mikeyouse wrote, there is a HUGE gap between a commercially viable, patentable product and a freely accessible paper stating "take copper acetate and benzenetricarboxylic acid, stir at pH so and so and remove the volatiles in vacuum".

The resulting blue crunchy mess is NOWHERE near something on a support material that you throw into a fluidized bed reactor for reaction at elevated temperature for months on end. And that's where the proprietary magic happens.


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throwawaymathsyesterday at 5:36 PM

is desulfurization endothermic? one thing I'd worry about when increasing the surface area that much for an industrialized process is making your reaction vat into a bomb