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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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Financial support from The Dow Chemical Company is
gratefully acknowledged. We also acknowledge Marcello
Herrera and Minje Kang for their support in creating catalyst
weight and gas chromatograph calibrations for this reactor
system and for testing the hydrogenation of ethylene on this
catalyst.
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