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XI.—The Adsorption of Sulphur Dioxide by Charcoal at –10° C

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

A. M. Williams
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University of Edinburgh
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Summary

(1) The adsorption of sulphur dioxide by blood charcoal at –10° C. was studied, and measurements were taken of the amount adsorbed, the pressure, and the isothermal heat of adsorption at constant volume.

(2) The adsorption isotherm is a typical vapour adsorption curve, and runs the same course as that found by Trouton for the adsorption of water vapour.

(3) The heat of adsorption curve passes through a minimum and a maximum, and finally runs parallel to the adsorption axis. A tentative explanation of this is offered.

In conclusion, the author would seek to express his thanks to Professor F. G. Donnán, F.R.S., for his advice given in the course of these experiments which were performed in 1913–14 in the Chemical Laboratories, University College, London.

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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1918

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page 161 note * Wied. Ann., xix (1883), p. 21.

page 161 note † Zeits. f. physik. Chem., lxxiv (1910), p. 641. See also Joulin, , Ann. Chim. phys. (5), xxii (1881), p. 398Google Scholar; and Favre, , Ann. Ohim. phys. (5), i (1874), p. 209.Google Scholar

page 161 note ‡ Proc. Roy. Soc., lxxiv, A (1904), p. 122, and lxxvi, A (1905), p. 325.

page 161 note § Zeits. f. physik. Chem., xlix (1904), p. 602, and Anz. Akad. Wiss. Krakau, 1910 A, p. 345.

page 162 note * The calorimeter was made to the author's design by Baumbach of Manchester. The first calorimeter which subsequently broke was resilvered and evacuated by the author, the second by the maker. The rate of leak was less in the first calorimeter. The author is indebted to Dr Whytelaw-Gray for many hints as to manipulation here.

page 163 note * It would have been possible by means of a tap to adjust the mercury so that the pressure was always (say) 78·0 cms., and so keep the dioxide at a fixed temperature.

page 163 note † A two-way tap above the charcoal bulb would have been simpler.

page 163 note ‡ A change in volume on joining of 0·1 c.cm. would affect all the calculated values of the amount adsorbed 003 per cent, and the change must have been less.

page 165 note * The treatment by Freundlich, , Kapillarchtmie, pp. 107–11Google Scholar, is confused and erroneous.

page 166 note * Comptes Rendus, cxlviii, p. 1173 (1907).

page 166 note † Ibid., cxxxix, p. 129 (1904).

page 166 note ‡ Journal de Chim. phys., vi, p. 1 (1908).

page 169 note * Mills, , Journ. of Phys. Chem., x, 1 (1906)Google Scholar, calculates λ = 94·7 cal. at –10° C.

page 169 note † Proc. Roy. Soc., lxxviii, A, p. 412.

page 171 note * See Williams, , Trans. Far. Soc., x, p. 167 (1914).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 171 note † Proc. Amer. Acad., xlix, 1 (1913).

page 171 note ‡ Cf. Donnan's negative surface tension of coiloids.