Alcohols adsorption fundamentals

The conformity to laws of adsorption, in particular their thermodynamic fundamentals, is independent of whether a water-air or a water-apolar oil interface is considered, provided that the surfactant is soluble only in one phase. If the oil phase in a liquid two-phase system is apolar, this condition is valid for many surfactants. Thus, all surfactants with an adequate solubility in water are almost insoluble in the hydrocarbon phase. If this condition is not met, e.g., in the system water-amyl alcohol, the thermodynamically based adsorption isotherms are more complicated to set up [39]. 

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