“…He concluded that the action was not chemical. Croner (1) showed that animal charcoal was a good adsorbent for fats in benzene solution but that an excess of carbon would not remove the last traces. Patrick and Jones (7) used silica gel in their study of adsorption of benzoic and acetic acids from carbon tetrachloride solutions, and Holmes and McKelvey (4) also used silica gel in their study of adsorption of acids from toluene solutions.…”