Dielectric behavior of low boiling chlorides in the liquid, solid, and adsorbed states
The complex dielectric constants of hydrogen, methyl, and ethyl chlorides have been measured, for the purpose of comparison with the present and future adsorption studies. The hydrogen chloride results agree with those of Cole and Swensen (22). Studies of hydrogen and ethyl chlorides adsorbed on finely divided sodium chloride show two particularly interesting phenomena. Adsorbed hydrogen chloride shows an unusually high polarizability at monolayer surface coverage, which then decreases again with increasing adsorption. Adsorbed ethyl chloride also shows a very high polarizability at a particular surface coverage, but this maximum occurs at about one-fourth of monolayer coverage, and is accompanied by loss, in contrast to the former case.