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Aerlinn

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Dont know about what catalysts, but they're probably used simply to speed (like all catalysts) up the polymerisation...
 

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in gas phase process, you don't have a catalyst, just an initiator...

in ziegler natta process, you use trialkylaluminium and titanium tetra (?) chloride
 

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Peroxide or oxygen gas catalyst for LDPE

Titanium(III) chloride and trialkylaluminium compounds for HDPE
(i.e. the Zieglar-Natta process as xiao1985 said)
 
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