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All equipment designed to measure surface area, adsorption—desorption isotherms or pore volume by adsorption actually determines the quantity of gas condensed on a solid surface at some equilibrium vapor pressure. The surface area or pore volumes and pore sizes are then calculated by means of an appropriate theory used to treat the adsorption and/or desorption data. Depending on the apparatus employed, the adsorbed quantity is measured as volume or weight. The accuracy of an adsorption apparatus is, therefore, dependent upon its ability to correctly measure either of these quantities.
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© 1984 S. Lowell and J. E. Shields
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Lowell, S., Shields, J.E. (1984). Adsorption measurements — Preliminaries. In: Powder Surface Area and Porosity. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5562-2_13
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