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Magnetite surface area titration using nitric oxide, II. Pretreatment effects and silica-supported samples

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Abstract

The use of NO adsorption for determination of Fe3O4 surface areas has been examined and extended, from earlier work on unsupported samples, to silica-supported Fe3O4. Gravimetric studies confirm earlier suggestions that the irreversible NO adsorption uptake on unsupported Fe3O4 is dependent upon sample pretreatment. Long (ca. 24 h) vacuum treatment at 650 K leads to increased apparent NO adsorption uptakes due to reduction of the surface. Magnetite particle size estimates were made using irreversible NO adsorption uptakes on silica-supported Fe3O4 samples that had received a "standard" 1 h vacuum pretreatment at 650 K. These estimates agreed well with average particle sizes calculated using x-ray line-broadening and magnetization measurements, indicating that NO adsorption can, in fact, be used to measure magnetite surface areas on silica-supported samples.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)115-119
Number of pages5
JournalReaction Kinetics and Catalysis Letters
Volume17
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 1981

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