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Past exam of the chemistry A course of the University of Cambridge 2022 Paper 2 A6 f Solution by
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At fixed temperature,Thus magnetic-field-dependent Langmuir adsorption is even in and increases with . At fixed nonzero gas pressure, stronger field increases surface coverage; in an isotherm plot, the half-coverage pressure moves to lower pressure. The saturation coverage remains one because the number of sites is unchanged.
For weak fields, with ,There is no linear small-field change. At large , , and at fixed the coverage approaches one. The field lowers the free energy of the surface spin ensemble relative to the unsplit bulk; simply averaging the two surface energies to would miss this equilibrium effect.
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