Mobile adsorption

{
  "id": "MLC-T-CHM-007437",
  "term": "Mobile adsorption",
  "field": "Chemistry",
  "definition": "Adsorption in which the adsorbed molecules keep some freedom to travel over the surface, more so as the temperature rises. In the localized form they stay on adsorption sites for most of the time and only occasionally hop to another site or leave and land elsewhere. In the non-localized form they roam so freely that they are spread over the surface and the layer resembles a two-dimensional gas.",
  "subject": "Physical and Biophysical Chemistry",
  "see_also": [
    "mobility",
    "adsorbate",
    "desorption",
    "immobile adsorption"
  ],
  "references": [
    "PAC, 1976, 46, 71. 'Manual of Symbols and Terminology for Physicochemical Quantities and Units - Appendix II. Definitions, Terminology and Symbols in Colloid and Surface Chemistry. Part II: Heterogeneous Catalysis' on page 76 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac197646010071)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/chemistry/mobile-adsorption/"
}