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interest and relevance to operators and designers of adsorption processes
and equipment. Chapters are devoted to fuller's earth and activated clays,
aluminium oxide base materials, bone char and related materials, dec-
olourizing and water treatment carbons, metal and medicinal adsorbent
chars, gas adsorbent carbons, silica gel, magnesia and hydrous oxides,
solvent recovery and adsorption from gases, odour removal, gas masks, gas
hydrates, the dehydration of air and gases, ion exchangers and chromato-
graphic adsorption analysis. One chapter deals with the specifications and
testing of adsorbents.

Interfacial Phenomena (J. T. Davies and E. K. Rideal, Academic Press,
New York, 1961)
In response to a growing literature on the the subject of adsorption of gases
onto solids (including physical adsorption, chemisorption and heterogene-
ous catalysis) this book was written to examine particularly some of the more
fundamental properties of various liquid interfaces. Eight well-referenced
chapters describe the physics of surfaces, electrostatic phenomena, electro-
kinetic phenomena, adsorption at liquid interfaces, properties of monolay-
ers, reactions at liquid surfaces, diffusion through interfaces, and disperse
systems and adhesion.

Adsorption, Surface Area and Porosity (S. J. Gregg and K. S. W. Sing,
Academic Press, London, 1967)
The overall aim of this book was to provide a critical exposition of the use of
adsorption data for the evaluation of the surface area and the pore size
distribution of finely divided and porous solids. The intended audiences
were workers in academic institutions and in industrial laboratories. Con-
siderable space is devoted to the BET method (see Chapter 3 in this book)
for determining the specific surface and the use of the Kelvin equation for
the calculation of pore size distribution. However, attention is also given to
other methods for estimating surface area from adsorption measurements,
namely those based on adsorption from solution, on heats of immersion, on
chemisorption and on the application of the Gibbs adsorption equation to
gaseous adsorption. Each of the eight chapters is extensively referenced.

Mass Transfer Operations, 2nd edition (R. E. Treybal, McGraw-Hill,
Tokyo, 1968)
Chapter 11 of this undergraduate textbook devotes 77 pages to adsorption
and ion exchange. Single and multicomponent equilibria, for both gaseous
and liquid systems are described qualitatively. Stagewise operation, which is