Abstract: A catalyst for conducting non-selective oxidation reactions comprising a carrier material consisting mainly of alumina, if required in combination with one or more other metal oxides, the surface of said carrier material having applied thereto a catalytically active component consisting in a fine distribution of one or more oxides of one or more metals from the first series of transition elements of the Periodic Table, said carrier surface having applied thereto a stabilizing element on the basis of a metal or compound of a metal from subgroup 3 or 4 of the Periodic Table, said element being applied so uniformly that after treatment at 1050.degree. C. for 6 hours the catalyst shows no diffraction maxima in the X-ray diffraction pattern having a half-value width less than 1.0 degrees of arc (measured through the double angle of diffraction).

Abstract: This invention relates to a carrier material essentially consisting of aluminium oxide, possibly in combination with a different metal oxide, and to the surface of which a compound of a metal ion of the 3rd or 4th subgroup of the Periodic Table has been applied, so uniformly that, after a treatment at 1000.degree. C. for 6 hours, the carrier material does not exhibit diffraction maximums in the X-ray diffraction pattern with a half-value width of less than 1.0 degree of arc (measured over the double diffraction angle). The invention also relates to a process for making the carrier material.