Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To take up by adsorption.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To gather (a gas or liquid) on the surface in a condensed layer. Thus solids, such as glass, gather gases and liquids with which they are in contact.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive, chemistry To accumulate on a surface, by adsorption
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. to attract and bind (molecules of a substance in a fluid) so as to form a thin layer on the surface, by non-electrostatic forces; to bind by adsorption. Distinguished from
absorb , in which the foreign substance penetrates the body of the absorbing material.
WordNet 3.0
- v. accumulate (liquids or gases) on the surface
Etymologies
- From French, from Latin ad- ("to"), + sorbere ("suck in"). (Wiktionary)
- ad- + Latin sorbēre, to suck. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In the near rocks zone, a battle airship firmly adsorb to a great meteorolite, an eye warrior watch with scout far places of Flolamp fleets, soundless, Boss, Flolamp have leaved for Life Star.”
“Activated charcoal does not effectively adsorb hydrocarbons, and, in the absence of coingestants, has no role in therapy.”
“New nanomaterials with high surface areas can adsorb hydrogen, but have yet to be produced on a commercial scale. via Urine: A ‘Clean’ Energy Source: Discovery News.”
“I've read that the capacity of the North Sea fields alone are such that they could adsorb European CO2 for decades.”
Hydrogen Cars, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Other scenarios may provide enough stellar uniformity to adsorb & quench these extreme temperatures? and pressure issues!”
Missing Early Stars Found, With No Place Left to Hide | Universe Today
“Not to mention that you add a slight excess of the stoichiometric requirement to completely adsorb the sulfur in the coal.”
“One of them is the capacity of drinkers to adsorb liqueur without slurring or otherwise noticeably displaying physical manifestations of enjoying alcoholic beverages.”
“Neither of us was even slightly the worse for wear as we both have the body weight to adsorb such a piddling amount of alcohol.”
“The system can adsorb a couple of them, as tokens.”
“Metals do not reach high concentrations in water, but rather bind (adsorb) to sediment particles.”
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