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Six groups of paper were subjected to the following treatments Paper A - this paper was washed as described Paper B -the washed papers were soaked In Mg(HC03)2 for one-half hour and dried Paper C - the washed papers were soaked in 0.02 g/1 copper acetate solution for 30 minutes and alr-drled. They were then soaked for 30 minutes In the magnesium bicarbonate solution and alr-drled. This paper showed 86 ppm copper by atomic adsorption analysis Paper D - washed papers were soaked in 0.0159 g/1 copper acetate solution for 30 minutes and alr-drled. They were soaked in calcium hydroxide solution for 15 minutes, then calcium bicarbonate solution for 15 minutes and air-dried. This paper showed 64 ppm copper by analysis Paper E - washed papers were soaked in 0.0089 g/1 copper acetate solution, for 60 minutes and air-dried. Analysis indicated 59 ppm copper Paper F - washed papers were soaked in calcium hydroxide solution for 15 minutes, then in calcium bicarbonate solution for 15 minutes and alr-drled. 

The subject of reactive SiOa has been under development for about ten years. By reactive Si02 is meant an ordinary high surface area silica, methoxylated and then pyrolysed at high temperatures. Chemisorptive centres are formed, thought to be two Si radicals associated with two anomalously reactive atoms. Adsorption of O2 gives rise to a new, 0-contain-... 

Many solids have foreign atoms or molecular groupings on their surfaces that are so tightly held that they do not really enter into adsorption-desorption equilibrium and so can be regarded as part of the surface structure. The partial surface oxidation of carbon blacks has been mentioned as having an important influence on their adsorptive behavior (Section X-3A) depending on conditions, the oxidized surface may be acidic or basic (see Ref. 61), and the surface pattern of the carbon rings may be affected [62]. As one other example, the chemical nature of the acidic sites of silica-alumina catalysts has been a subject of much discussion. The main question has been whether the sites represented Brpnsted (proton donor) or Lewis (electron-acceptor) acids. Hall... 

We heated the substrate of zinc oxide containing 10 cm 2 of silver atoms (in this case there was already no emission after completion of deposition) at 300 C. Such thermal treatment results in formation of microcrystals, rather than evaporation adatoms on the surface of the substrate made of zinc oxide. In paper [34] it was shown that microcrystals with diameter 100 A deposited on the zinc oxide surface are acceptors of electrons, therefore the formation of microcrystals results in increase of resistivity of a sensor substrate above the initial value (prior to silver deposition). In this case the initial value of the resistance of sensor-substrate was 2.1 MOhm, after adsorption of silver atoms it became 700 kOhm, and as a result of heating at 300°C and formation of microcrystals - acceptors of electrons it in increased up to 12 MOhm. If such a substrate is subject to deposition of 3-10 5 cjjj-2 silver again, then emission of silver atoms gets detected. From the change of resistivity of sensor-detector due to deposition of silver atoms one can conclude that in this case the emission of atoms is 4 times as low than in experiment with pure substrate made of zinc oxide, which confirms the supposition made on the mechanism of emission of adatoms. 

Spectrometry Spectroscopy4 is basically an experimental subject and is concerned with the adsorption, emission or scattering of electromagnetic radiation by atoms or molecules [15, p. 1]. A wide variety of applications of this concept have been applied in analyzing many substances. In the particular case of explosive molecules the most prominent are several forms of mass spectrometry and ion mobility spectrometry. Each has certain advantages and disadvantages. Each is discussed in detail in a later chapter. The former is most often used in fixed applications the latter, in both fixed and portable applications. 

The participation of the germanium dimers in nucleophilic/electrophilic or Lewis acid/base reactions has been the subject of several investigations on the Ge(100)-2x1 surface [16,49,255,288,294,313-318]. As for the case of silicon, adsorption of amines has provided an excellent system for probing such reactions. Amines contain nitrogen lone pair electrons that can interact with the electrophilic down atom of a tilted Ge dimer to form a dative bond via a Lewis acid/base interaction (illustrated for trimethylamine at the Si(100)-2 x 1 surface in Ligure 5.17). In the dative bond, the lone pair electrons on nitrogen donate charge to the Ge down atom [49]. 

The global thermodynamic approach used in the above sections is insensitive to details at the atomic level and can only yield a gross characterization of the surface. Properties such as the specific surface area and the presence or absence of pores can be determined using the above approach since only the average surface —not atomic details —is involved. The existence of a distribution of surface energy sites can also be inferred from adsorption data, but the method falls short when it comes to specifics about this distribution. Observations on an atomic scale are needed to learn more about the details of the surface structure. Such observations comprise the subject matter of the last two sections of the chapter. 

In electrode reactions of the type H+/H2, 02/H20, and probably many organic redox systems, the electrode surface may be involved by virtue of the presence of adsorption sites where intermediates in the reaction mechanism, e.g. atomic hydrogen, are located. Generally, the reaction rate is higher at metals with a larger adsorptive capacity. This is a particular form of electrocatalysis, which is a subject of still-growing interest. 

Figures 7 and 8 show that n, in most cases increases slowly with temperature owing to the scatter of results, accurate values for the apparent activation energies of this process are difficult to obtain, but in general they lie between 0 and 5 3 kcal./mole. Table I compares values of n, at around 450° with values of monolayer capacity, expressed as nitrogen atoms per gram calculated from the B.E.T. isotherms for the adsorption of N2 at — 196° on the same oxides the same outgassing temperatures were used in both series of experiments. Table I similarly compares the B.E.T. mono-layer capacities and n, values for MgO subjected to various outgassing...

The adsorption of H on Ni has been the subject of a recent EH-type calculation by Fassaert et al. (68). A finite-size representation consisting of up to 13 atoms was employed for the (111), (100), and (110) nickel surfaces. In this calculation, the d orbitals of nickel were taken as a linear combination of two Slater orbitals in order to improve the fit with more exact SCF atomic calculations, as described in Section 11.B.1. In addition, the diagonal Hamiltonian matrix elements were modified to depend on charge, similar to Eq. (11), in order to check the charge separation predicted by a noniterative calculation. 

The kinetic and dynamical aspects of the dissociative adsorption of 02 on the Pt(l 1 1), and surfaces vicinal to Pt(l 11), has been investigated in some detail. It provides a good example of precursor mediated dissociation, but is complicated by the fact that both physisorbed and chemisorbed molecular precursor states are involved, and access to the chemisorbed precursor is activated. It is also a good example of the role of step and defect sites in the overall conversion of the precursor states. The adsorption system has the advantage that the characterisation of a number of molecular and atomic states has also been the subject of considerable attention. 

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