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The importance of surface areas and porosities of powdered solids are of vital interest to many scientific and technological disciplines. Knowledge of the magnitude of these properties is required when studying almost any interfacial phenomenon involving gas-solid or liquid-solid interactions. Among the techniques that have been utilized to determine the surface areas of oxide materials are electron microscopy, X-ray powder diffraction, small angle X-ray scattering, heat of immersion, adsorption from solution, and gas adsorption. The X-ray methods yield a volume-average crystallite diameter, while the adsorption techniques yield a surface-average value. On the other hand, electron microscopy yields a particle size distribution, from which a volume-average diameter and a surface-average value can be calculated by assuming a certain particle shape. Electron microscopy is often not readily accessible, while the X-ray techniques are applicable only to crystalline materials having crystallite sizes in the approximate diameter range of 3–60 nm.
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Herman, R.G., Pendleton, P., Bulko, J.B. (1983). Surface Characterization of Certain Metal Oxides Determined by the Isothermal Adsorption and Desorption of Argon. In: Rossington, D.R., Condrate, R.A., Snyder, R.L. (eds) Advances in Materials Characterization. Materials Science Research, vol 15. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8339-4_6
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