Ink bottle theory

Figure 1-13 Ink Bottle Theory of Hysteresis in Sorption. Source From T.P. Labuza, Sorption Phenomena in Foods, Food Technol, Vol. 22, pp. 263-272, 1968.

Another early theory, which also attracted a great deal of attention, was the ink-bottle theory this was originally put forward by Kraemer (1931) and subsequently developed by McBain (1935). Kraemer pointed out that the rate of evaporation of a liquid in a relatively large pore is likely to be retarded if the only exit is through a narrow channel. This argument led Brunauer (1945) to conclude that the liquid in the pore cannot be in true equilibrium with its vapour during the desorption process and therefore it is the adsorption branch of the loop which represents thermodynamic reversibility. 

B) the physical significance of ink bottle theories of mercury intrusion have always been the subject of debate (C) a possible reinterpretation of the data in (A) as fractal data. a. and P are the slopes of particular regions of the resulting curve, which may be interpreted as fractal dimensions. 

Foster (ref. 9) and Cohan (ref. 10) principally contributed to the establishment of the delayed meniscus theory.Everett and Haynes (ref. 4), and Broekhoff and de Boer (ref. 11) made very substantial contributions to the understanding of these phenomena. Kraemer (ref. 12) and McBaln (ref. 13) developed the ink bottle theory. 

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