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THE presence of an adsorptive layer on the surface of the grains of high-silica sands, postulated as a result of determinations of the amount of methylene blue adsorbed from aqueous solution1, has been confirmed by measurements of the adsorption of carbon dioxide at its vaporization temperature under atmospheric pressure. S-shaped isotherms were obtained, and the extent of the surface available to carbon dioxide molecules was calculated from the Brunauer–Emmett–Teller relationship2. These values were compared with the superficial surface areas determined by an air permeability method3 or, for the finely powdered samples, by a light-extinction method4. The two sets of figures are given in Table 1 for three samples of silica and for four high-silica sands from the Lower Greensand exposure.
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SEGROVE, H. Adsorption of Carbon Dioxide at −79° C. on High-Silica Sands. Nature 177, 987–988 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177987a0
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