POTENTIAL THEORY OF ADSORPTION
POTENTIAL THEORY OF ADSORPTION
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DOI:
10.1126/science.141.3585.1010
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发表时间:
1963-01-01
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影响因子:
56.9
通讯作者:
POLANYI, M
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作者:
POLANYI, M
12. A second experiment was performed on 23 August 1963. with th-theory. This result was confirmed later in a number of papers by my pupils and by other authors (2). The result was impressive. Herbert Freundlich, then the most authoritative writer on this subject, gave a full account of my theory in the next edition of his Kapillarchemie, published in 1922. He told me," I am heavily committed now to your theory myself; I hope it is correct." Actually, his words already expressed an uneasiness, and soon my theory was almost universally rejected. How did this happen? During the very years in which the theory was born, there occurreda daz-zling series of insights into the nature of things. Debye's discovery of fixed dipoles, Bohr's atomic model, and the ionic structure of sodium chloride found by WH Bragg and W. L. Bragg, established the pervasive function of electrical forces in the archi-tecture of matter. It seemed obvious that, in consequence, cohesive forces must be explained by electrical inter-action. A number oftheories were put forward on these lines. Keesom sug-gested an electrostatic interaction of fixed quadrupoles; Debye, an interaction of quadrupoles with induced dipoles. Kossel's attemptto explain all chemical bonds as attraction between positive and negative ions also belongs to this period. This view of atomic forces made my theory of adsorption untenable.