Of the adsorption of gases. Section II. Kinetics and energetics of gas adsorption. Introductory paper to section II.
Of the adsorption of gases. Section II. Kinetics and energetics of gas adsorption. Introductory paper to section II.
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10.1039/tf9322800195
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1932-01-01
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Freundlich, H
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Freundlich, H
When I received the kind invitation of the Faraday Society to give an introductory paper for the section Kinetics and Energetics of Gas Adsorption,” I w7as very doubtful whether I really was able to accept it. For I have not carried out any laboratory work on this subject for many years, and I am not therefore in a position to bring forward anything new. A very general survey is, however, sometimes quite welcome to those who are not so familiar with the subject. I hope that those to whom gas adsorption is a main theme of work will pardon me if what I have to say may seem somewhat uninteresting. Those who first investigated gas adsorption, de Saussure, Joulin and others, noticed soon that they had to deal with true equilibrium: the amount adsorbed in equilibrium with a given pressure was the same, whether they measured with rising or falling pressures. Thermodynamic points of view may therefore be used without hesitation. It was also very early noticed that the equilibrium in pure gases is reached very quickly, generally in the course of seconds or minutes. We do not find that wide range of velocities so characteristic of chemical reactions, at least not under normal circumstances of adsorption. The fact that we have strictly reversible changes of pressure in a two-phase system containing a solid and a gas, and that these equilibria are reached quickly, is often used as a criterion of the supposition that we are really dealing with cases of adsorption, that is to say with phenomena mainly ruled by surface forces. We cannot deny that these criteria are not quite satisfactory. Such an adsorption is, for instance, hard to distinguish from the chemical equilibrium of a highly porous substance, such as a zeolite or permutite, in which practically every molecule lies on a free internal surface. We know, however, of cases where substances, chemically so inert as argon, are adsorbed and where plane surfaces, like those of mica, are able to adsorb. The similarity of these cases with those in which chemically active gases are adsorbed on the surfaces of porous substances is so great that the existence of adsorption as a surface phenomenon is very generally accepted. If we had a property characteristic of the equilibrium on the surface and changeable with the amount of gas adsorbed, we might correlate thermodynamically the way in which it depends on the pressure p with the amount adsorbed per unit of surface zc. The surface tension of the