the oxidizing power [m+1291 appear unlikely. The oxidizing power and the catalytic activity may be due to defects in the structure, i.e. in the coordination of the metal ions in the oxides 11321. Different types of reactions are evidently catalysed by different active sites; thus the addition of alkali, which suppresses the catalysis of one reaction, often has relatively little influence on another [87,1331. Cracking processes may proceed via carboni-
11321A melt can readily solidifv to a glass with a three-dimensional or two-dimensional network, or a chain structure, provided that an irregular bonding system can be formed by virtue of free rotation about the bonds between a central atom and the ligands which function as bridging atoms. Such an irregular structure can arise when the system contains a sufficient amount of bridging atoms such as 0, F, and S, or bridging groups such as CH2, with bond angles less than 180 O. When the network is formed predominantly by trivalent and tetravalent elements, such as As and Ge, the glasses ~ though they cannot be prepared by cooling of meltscan be obtained by other processes, e.g. by condensing the vaporized substances onto a surface (glasses in the wider sense of the word). As a result of extensive network formation, the bonding system and, therefore, the short-range order of the atomic arrangement in the melt difSer from those in the glass or the crystal. A liquid mixture of substances having unlike molecular size and shape also can form a glass on solidiJication. Moreover, glasses can be formed even when the system contains only one component opposing regular packing into a crystal lattice.