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The Elovich Equation in Chemisorption Kinetics

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THE equation first proposed by Roginsky and Zeldovich1 but now generally known as the Elovich equation has been extensively applied to chemisorption data2,3. The equation is where q = amount of gas chemisorbed at time t and a and α are constants.

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MCLINTOCK, I. The Elovich Equation in Chemisorption Kinetics. Nature 216, 1204–1205 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2161204a0

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