Vt. Adonkin et al., POSITRON SPECTROSCOPY OF REHYDRATED PYROGENEOUS SILICA SURFACE, Reaction kinetics and catalysis letters, 50(1-2), 1993, pp. 227-233
Positron annihilation method has been used fox investigating amorphous
nonporous pyrogeneous silica of high purity. The influence of water a
dsorption on the structure of the silanol surface is shown. The effect
of ''swelling'', that is an increase of interglobular free volume at
intermediate degrees of silica hydration has been observed.