A theory used in gas adsorption to describe the mass transfer of a solute from a gas into a liquid in which either side of the interface exists a stagnant gas film and a similar stagnant liquid film (see Fig. 57). The two films are assumed to offer the only resistance to mass transfer. In the bulk gas and liquid, the solution partial pressure and concentration are considered to be constant. At the interface, they are assumed to be in equilibrium. It was developed by W. K. Lewis and W. G. Whitman in 1924.
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