Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
In order to be able to identify the type to which an adsorbed film belongs from its experimentally determined behaviour, it is necessary to know theoretically how various simple and general types, which are likely to occur frequently, behave. Films formed on a rectangular solid lattice with another atom at the centre of each rectangle are considered. Each adsorbed molecule is assumed sufficiently large to exclude the possibility of adsorption on the four neighbouring sites and, owing to the rectangular shape of the lattice, reacts appreciably with two and not with four neighbouring adsorbed molecules. The statistics and kinetics of the film are considered. It is shown that the variation of heat of adsorption with fraction of sites occupied is quite different from that of other types of film which have so far been treated. Immobile films of the same type are briefly discussed.
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