Talk:Catalyst poisoning

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Rehabilitation

It wouldn't hurt to add a section on the chemistry and economics of rehabilitating the poisoned catalyst.

Long ago, I was told my an elementary school teacher that fossil fuels were non-renewable: they were impossible to replenish. Surely, I reasoned to myself, she doesn't mean "impossible", or how would they have formed in the first place? Here we have an article engaged in a similar "can't get there from here" stance: a poisoned organism is gone forever, whereas a "poisoned" catalyst can presumably (we leave this unstated) be "depoisoned" by some combination of trouble and expense.

By not completing the cycle, we're engaged in the same abuse of metaphor that suckered my grade three science teacher into making logically preposterous claims in the guise of science and fact.

Step back and consider the children. — MaxEnt 09:38, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]