Adsorption of ions on metals

In Sec. V,3 we dealt with the adsorption of ions on metallic surfaces as the problem of the polarization of an ideally polarizable structure by the ion. Dielectrics have a more restricted polarizability, the polarization resulting in the shifting of the electrons in the atoms or in groups of atoms of the dielectric to which they belong or in the mutual shifting of ions as well (34)- Instead of Eq. (16), which holds for an adsorbent of ideal polarizability, we obtain for the adsorption energy contribution due to the electrostatic induction of a dielectric ... 

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