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Science 24 December 1965:
Vol. 150. no. 3704, pp. 1710 - 1713
DOI: 10.1126/science.150.3704.1710
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Electrostatic Aspects of Physical Adsorption: Implications for Molecular Sieves and Gaseous Anesthesia

Sidney W. Benson 1 and James W. King Jr. 2

1 Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California
2 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

The equations of electrostatics are applied to the adsorption of gases on molecular sieves; separations on sieves are caused not by the size of molecules but by electrostatic forces between the gases and the strong electric fields of the sieves. Electrostatic interactions can also explain the phenomenon of general anesthesia.


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