The adsorption anomaly of water on Sn02, i.e., the appearance of a discontinuity in the adsorption isotherm, was investigated by measuring the adsorption isotherm and the isosteric heat of adsorption on samples which had been treated in vacuo at 1073 K, in H2 at 473 K, and in 02 at 1073 K. The discontinuity disappeared when the samples were treated either in vacuo at 1073 K for a longer time or in H2 at 473 K, and reappeared after treatment of the sample at 1073 K in 02. A corresponding change in the isosteric heat of adsorption, qBt, was found; a plateau in the qBt curve, which was observed on the sample treated at 1073 K for 4 h, disappeared after H2 treatment and a monotonically decreasing curve was obtained, while the succeeding 02 treatment of the sample reproduced the plateau. This led to the conclusion that the removal of surface oxygens was responsible for the decay of the discontinuity. Crystallographic considerations on the Sn02 surfaces strongly suggest that the discontinuity mentioned above occurs on the well-developed (100) plane of Sn02.