A potters clay from the Gorgan plain, in N. E. Iran, has been fired successively at temperatures up to the melting point 1 200 "C in an atmosphere of air or 5 % CO in moist COz. Mossbauer spectra at 296 K and 4.2 K allow the determination of the relative amounts of iron in well-crystallised haematite or magnetite, of poorly-crystallised and fine-particle ferric oxide or hydroxide, and of iron d...

The weak-field ligand environments at the metal nodes of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) mimic the electronic environment of metalloenzyme active sites, but little is known about the reactivity of MOF nodes toward small molecules of biological relevance. Here, we report that the ferrous ions in Fe(2+)-exchanged MOF-5 disproportionate nitric oxide to produce nitrous oxide and a ferric nitrito co...