Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To take up by adsorption.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, chemistry To
accumulate on asurface , byadsorption
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb accumulate (liquids or gases) on the surface
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
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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 2009
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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.
My Pee-pee Makes My Car Go-Go « Monster Scifi Show Blog 2009
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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.
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Activated charcoal does not effectively adsorb hydrocarbons, and, in the absence of coingestants, has no role in therapy.
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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 2010
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One of them is the capacity of drinkers to adsorb liqueur without slurring or otherwise noticeably displaying physical manifestations of enjoying alcoholic beverages.
What was Althouse drinking? Ann Althouse 2009
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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.
What was Althouse drinking? Ann Althouse 2009
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Not to mention that you add a slight excess of the stoichiometric requirement to completely adsorb the sulfur in the coal.
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The system can adsorb a couple of them, as tokens.
Same Old Shit Mad Hatter 2008
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