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Hysteresis in Mercury Porosimetry

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Since the development of the first commercial mercury porosi-meter in 19451, mercury porosimetry has become an important technique for the determination of pore size distributions in porous materials. The basic relationship of mercury porosimetry is the Washburn2 equation (1) which gives the pressure, P, required to

$$ \Pr = - 2\gamma \cos \theta $$
((1))

intrude mercury intro cylindrical pores of radius r. The surface tension and contact angle of mercury are given by γ and θ, respectively. A typical high pressure mercury intrusion-extrusion curve is illustrated in Figure I.

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  1. Quantachrome Corporation, Syosset, New York, USA

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  1. New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University, Alfred, New York, USA

    David R. Rossington , Robert A. Condrate  & Robert L. Snyder ,  & 

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Lowell, S., Shields, J.E. (1983). Hysteresis in Mercury Porosimetry. 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_7

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