adsorb

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The capacity of tire chips to adsorb organic compounds in a multisolute system was almost equal to that in single-solute systems.

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  1. transitive verb To take up by adsorption.

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  • Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have just received a big boost in their already superlative ability to adsorb molecules with the advent of a supercritical CO —  Chemical & Engineering News: Latest News
  • Adsorptive products of Freudenberg Nonwovens are special performance materials with an active carbon finishing treatment to adsorb detrimental agents and toxins and stop unpleasant odour. —  Free Apparel News – Apparel RSS XML Feeds – Fibre2fashion.com
  • Hydration scanning tunneling microscopy is based on the electrical conductivity of molecularly thin water layers which adsorb to the sample surfaces in a humid atmosphere. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • This fine, highly reactive iron oxide layer can selectively adsorb the arsenic.
  • Due to its organophilic nature, exchanged bentonite is able to adsorb —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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  1. ad- + Latin sorbēre, to suck.

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  1. Latin ad, to, + sorbere, suck in. Cf. absorb.
 

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/ædˈsɔrb/
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