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Surfme Area of Activated Charcoal Langmuir Adsorption Isotherm
Surfme Area of Activated Charcoal Langmuir Adsorption Isotherm
The study of the Langmuir adsorption activit,y of 0.1, is iudependeut of molecular weight but
isotherm of acetic acid by activated charcoal, offered in related to the absolute activity. Hence it may be as-
a basic physical chemistry course, involves plotting the sumcd that molecules of such acids, on the charcoal sur-
relevant dat,a and finding the corresponding constants. face, would be oriented vertically in closely packed
The purpose of this paper is to suggest an interpretation
of the experimental data to make the exercise more
meaningful for the student. This is the estimation of
the specific adsorption area of charcoal.
For the adsorption of acid from its aqueous solution,
the Langmuir isotherm can he expressed as:
C/X = a + bC (1)