“…Many experimental and theoretical studies have been reported on the hysteresis phenomenon (Rao, 1941;Katz, 1949; Barrer et al, 1956;Everett, 1967;Everett and Haynes, 1972;Neimark, 1986;Burgess et al, 1989; Pan and Mersmann, 1990; Rudisill et al, 1992). Of particular interest to this study are the treatments using statistical mechanical and computational techniques (Wall and Brown, 1981;Zhdanov et al, 1987;Seaton, 1991;Liu et al, 1993;Yanuka, 1990; and the literature cited therein).…”