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The various forces responsible for physical adsorption were discussed in Chapter 2. These include dispersion as well as coulombic forces. Chemical adsorption arises from the inability of surface atoms to interact symmetrically in the absence of a neighbor above the plane of the surface. For this reason, surface atoms often possess electrons or electron pairs which are available for bond formation.
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Lowell, S., Shields, J.E. (1984). Chemisorption. In: Powder Surface Area and Porosity. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5562-2_19
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