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Mention one application of the property of adsorption of gas by charcoal.

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Charcoal adsorbs gas on its surface.
Its application is as follow:
It is used in the preparation of the gas masks which uses activated charcoal to avoid poisonous gases like $C O, C H_{4},$ etc.
Activated charcoal is used to create a vacuum.
It is used in heterogeneous catalysis.

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