Gas chromatographic retention volumes for 02, N?, CHI, CLHC, C3H8, ClHlO, C?Hi, and C~H B have been ~neasured over a range of temperatures between 25 and 400 "C, on colun~ns of the following ion-exchanged forms of zeolite S: Li+, Na+, I<+, Mg++, Ca++, Ba++, and Ag+. In addition, for i \ g S ~eolite, full isotherms have been determined for 02, N?, C~M C , and CzH4; and for N a S zeolite, isotherms for C?HC and C?H I. The gas chromatographic retention volumes agree well with the isotherms in the case of NaX but are significantly low for AgX, presumably as the result of a t least a portion of the adsorption process being sloxv. The heats of adsorption on N a X agree well with literature values for 02, N?, CH4, and C?Hc but are lo^ for CaHs and CaHlo; further indication of sloxv processes and hencc of a limitation of the g.c. technique. The observations can be correlated q~~alitatively in terms of the interplay of the following effects: ( a ) cationic held increases with decreasing ionic radius; ( b ) shielding of smaller cations is greater-at least in the six-membered oxygen-ring sites; (c) divalent cations, while having greater fielcls, are only half the number of nlonovalent cations and tend to be found in less exposed sites; and ( d ) the polarizing power of silver ion, xhich also occupies all types of exposed sites, is very strong. The most intense interactions were found with AgX; with ethylene a much stronger complex is formed than has been reported for any other silver compound. T h e significance of molecular quadrupole interactions on these heteroionic surfaces is shown by the much weaker cationic effects observed with 0 2 (which has negligible quadrupole moment) than with nitrogen.