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Calculate the surface area of a solid adsorbent material using BET theory, given that the mass of the adsorbent material is 2.5 g, the area occupied by each adsorbed layer is 15 Ų, the number of monolayers formed is 4, and the value of the BET constant is 0.05.

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The Brunauer-Emmett-Teller  BET  theory is a widely used method for calculating the surface area of solid adsorbent materials. The BET equation is given by:N =  N_m * C * P  / [ 1 - P  *  1 +  C - 1  * P ]where N is the amount of gas adsorbed at a given pressure P, N_m is the amount of gas adsorbed in a monolayer, and C is the BET constant.First, we need to find the amount of gas adsorbed in a monolayer  N_m . We are given that the number of monolayers formed is 4. Therefore, the total amount of gas adsorbed  N_total  can be calculated as:N_total = N_m * 4Now, we can use the BET equation to find N_m:N_m =  N_total *  1 - P  *  1 +  C - 1  * P   /  C * P We are given the value of the BET constant  C = 0.05 . However, we do not have the value of the pressure P. In order to solve this problem, we need more information about the adsorption isotherm, such as the pressure at which the adsorption occurs or the relationship between the amount of gas adsorbed and the pressure.Assuming we have the value of N_m, we can then calculate the surface area of the solid adsorbent material using the following equation:Surface area =  N_m * area occupied by each adsorbed layer * Avogadro's number  / mass of the adsorbent materialwhere Avogadro's number is 6.022 x 10^23 molecules/mol.Once we have the value of N_m, we can plug it into this equation along with the given values to find the surface area of the solid adsorbent material.

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