rules of thumb for adsorption

Thanks to all for their helpful comments in reply to my question.
Since posting, I looked in Atkins' book Physical Chemistry (1979) to see
what it says about adsorption. It distinguishes between physisorption
and chemisorption and discusses them separately but gives greater weight
to chemisorption, which is more important for catalysis. He doesn't mention
chromatography at all, so I'm not sure whether chromatographic adsorbents
work by physisorption or chemisorption. Likewise, Samsonov's book on his
configurational model of matter only discusses adsorption in connection
with catalysis.

I'm a little surprised that applications to chromatography are omitted
from Atkins' book. Is there another book that does study the behavior of
adsorbents in chromatography at a theoretical level?

Ignorantly,
Allan Adler
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