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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To take up and chemically bind (a substance) onto the surface of another substance.
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- verb transitive, chemistry to
adsorb asubstance on thesurface or another bychemical bonding
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- verb take up a substance by chemisorption
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Alteration of chemo– + (ab)sorb.]
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