The International Nickel Company, Inc.

Harold Thomas Michels

Raymond Pennoyer Jackson

A method is provided for preparing a supported catalyst composed of a structural substrate having an adherent, coherent, coating of a catalytic material which comprises applying on the substrate a dispersion comprising a stabilized colloidal silica solution having dispersed therein a fine metal powder which contains at least two of the metals nickel, chromium, and copper as mixtures or alloys or a combination thereof, and firing the coated substrate in a protective atmosphere at an elevated sintering temperature to form an adherent, coherent, coating.

Method of preparing a supported catalyst and the catalyst prepared by

Nickel-chromium stainless steel is of austenitic composition specially controlled to enable achieving resistance to elevated-temperature oxidation and corrosion at desirably economical levels of alloy content as low as 10% chromium and 10% nickel. Oxidation and corrosion resistant characteristics of the steel particularly include resistance to air-water atmospheres and gasoline exhaust atmospheres that are cyclically heated and cooled with heating to temperatures as high as 1800.degree. F. and cooling to room temperature. Steel has special utility for automotive exhaust train components and is generally useful for cyclically heated structural articles.

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Harold Thomas Michels