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Alternation in the Adsorption of Aliphatic Acids on Porous Carbon

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ALTERNATION in many of the properties of successive members in homologous series of solid long-chain compounds is well known. We are reporting the direct observation of a similar alternation in the maximum adsorptions of mono-1 and di-carboxylic acids from aqueous solutions on two series of coconut shell charcoals of different degrees of activation. Some alternation in the adsorptions of these acids on a single ‘Norite’ charcoal was found indirectly by Linner and Gortner2, who made a Langmuir extrapolation of their isotherms to maximum adsorption.

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    JOHN L. MORRISON & DAVID M. MILLER

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MORRISON, J., MILLER, D. Alternation in the Adsorption of Aliphatic Acids on Porous Carbon. Nature 174, 1188–1189 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/1741188a0

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