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Adsorption speed of silica gel at low pressures

tnhrbtnhb - 13-1-2007 at 07:39

Does anybody know..... how fast silica gel would adsorb water vapor at 17 torr? There would be nothing in the atmosphere besides water vapor. I have read about adsorption on wikipedia (I'm just a lowly hs student) and see the amount of water that would saturate the silica gel would be proportional to the vapor pressure, but no mention of how fast this is going to happen..... How would I find that out?