Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The process of sorbing.
- noun The state of being sorbed.
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- noun sciences Either of the processes of
absorption andadsorption
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- noun the process in which one substance takes up or holds another (by either absorption or adsorption)
Etymologies
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More recently, however, Adam Bruckner, Steven Coons, and John Williams of the University of Washington undertook a study in which instead of compressing the air, they simply employed a fan to blow it against a zeolite sorption bed.27 Zeolite is an extreme desiccant, and can be used to reduce atmospheric water vapor concentrations to a few parts per billion, well below even Martian humidity.
The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996
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Andy's checking with a lexicol\-\expndtw-3 ogist in San Francisco to determine the interval for the ab\-\expndtw-4 sorption rate.
Never Come Down Black, Michelle 1996
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Phosphorus sorption characteristics of productive and unproductive Niger soils.
Chapter 28 1996
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More recently, however, Adam Bruckner, Steven Coons, and John Williams of the University of Washington undertook a study in which instead of compressing the air, they simply employed a fan to blow it against a zeolite sorption bed.27 Zeolite is an extreme desiccant, and can be used to reduce atmospheric water vapor concentrations to a few parts per billion, well below even Martian humidity.
The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996
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"Given the rapid sorption and persistence of high levels of nicotine on indoor surfaces, including clothing and human skin, our findings indicate that third-hand smoke represents an unappreciated health hazard through dermal exposure, dust inhalation and ingestion," said lead author Mohamad Sleiman, also of Berkeley Lab.
Livescience.com 2010
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Adsorption experiments with methanol show that the overall adsorption capacities of nanoparticles and bulk are almost identical, but the shapes of the sorption isotherms differ significantly and the adsorption kinetics increase dramatically.
Naturejobs - All Jobs Daisuke Tanaka 2010
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Water sorption leads to aggregation, inactivation, and structural changes of alpha-CT as has been similarly shown to occur for many other proteins.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Giselle Flores-Fernandez 2010
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More information: Pimenidou P, Rickett G, Dupont V, Twigg MV, 'High purity H2 by sorption-enhanced chemical looping reforming of waste cooking oil in a packed bed reactor', is available online ahead of print publication in Bioresource Technology, doi: 10.1016/j. biortech.2010.06.079
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Adsorption experiments with methanol show that the overall adsorption capacities of nanoparticles and bulk are almost identical, but the shapes of the sorption isotherms differ significantly and the adsorption kinetics increase dramatically.
Naturejobs - All Jobs Daisuke Tanaka 2010
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