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The invention pertains to the preparation and use of catalytic materials and catalyst members for the selective oxidation of carbon monoxide in a gas stream that contains hydrogen. One such catalyst member may be produced by depositing by electric arc spraying a metal feedstock onto a metal substrate to provide a metal anchor layer on the substrate, and depositing a catalytic material comprising platinum and iron dispersed on a refractory inorganic oxide support material onto the metal substrate. The catalytic material may optionally be produced by wetting the support material, especially a particulate support material, with a platinum group metal solution and iron solution and drying and calcining the wetted support material in air at a temperature in the range of from 200.degree. C. to 300.degree. C., preferably using a solution containing bivalent platinum ion species. The catalyst member may be used by flowing the gas stream therethrough at a temperature at about 90.degree. C. with a O.sub.2 :CO ratio of about 1:1 and a space velocity of about 20,000/hr or, alternatively, at a temperature of about 150.degree. C. with a O.sub.2 :CO ratio of about 1.5:1 and a space velocity of about 80,000/hr.

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