Porosity Distribution, Surface Area, and Morphology of Synthetic Potassium Zeolites: A SEM and N2 Adsorption Study

Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis

Volumn 45, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 2171-2181

  Ramesh, K ^a   Reddy, K Sammi ^a   Rashmi, I ^a   Biswas, A K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SOIL SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

BET; BJH; D H; DFT; HK; zeolite

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906727895     PISSN: 00103624     EISSN: 15322416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00103624.2014.929699     Document Type: Article

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