抄録
The amounts of adsorbed oxygen on clean (0001) surface of natural graphite at 23°C has been determined by using the Knudsen flow capillary method. Graphite samples were the flattened (0001) single crystals (135 pieces, total weight: 0.146g, total geometrical surface area: 22.2cm2 ) occur in South Africa and the scaly single crystals (36, 326 pieces, total weight 0.35g, total geometrical surface area 219cm2) occur in Guatemala. The results obtained indicate that the saturated quantities of adsorbates are 1.7×1015 (molecules/cm2) for the South Africa-graphite and 9×1014 (molecules/cm2) for the Guatemala-graphite, respectively. These data suggest that oxygen molecules are adsorbed on the basal plane of graphite surface.