trunions 40 without breaking seal 42 alternatively reactor 12 does not include trunions 40 or seal 42 and does not rotate bath 44 is disposed within reactor 12 in one embodiment bath 44 includes a bronsted acid which causes at least a portion of a organic in the injected feed to be reformed to at least one unsaturated alkene of lower molecular weight such as ethylene under the operating conditions of system 10 in one embodiment the components of bath 44 generally have a temperature in the range of between about 1 000 u00b0 and 2 000 u00b0 c the temperature of bath 44 is sufficient to cause organic components of the injected feed to be reformed and subsequently discharged from bath 44 as at least one unsaturated organic of lower molecular weight in a particularly preferred embodiment the operating conditions of the bath which cause the reformation include for example temperatures which prevent substantial degradation of organic compounds also the required residence times of the feed in the bath of molten metal are substantially shorter than are those typically employed to thermally decompose organic containing feeds further the amount of carbon in bath 44 can be controlled for example by the rate of introduction of the feed stream to bath 44 by controlling the rate of removal of off gas from bath 44 by controlling system conditions e g temperature of system 10 by controlling the relative amounts of other components in bath 44 etc examples of suitable compositions in bath 44 include silicon and aluminum containing compositions wherein the ratio of aluminum to silicon is less than about one also it is to be understood that bath 44 can include oxides of the molten metals as disclosed in u s pat.