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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
adsorb .
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Examples
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According to this theory the layer of gas adsorbed is limited - in ideal border-line cases at least - to an extremely thin film of gas molecules extending over a single plane, thus a film whose thickness is that of a single molecule or, in other words, is monomolecular.
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It is considered an unconventional source as the gas may be attached to or "adsorbed" onto organic matter.
The Times of India 2010
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In such purifiers, chemicals, gases, and odors stick to the carbon and are "adsorbed" onto its huge surface area, bonding to the surface through chemical attraction.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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His claim was, however, greeted with great scepticism, and the crystals were suggested to be inorganic salts with the enzyme adsorbed or occluded.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010
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Warren the Ape is clearly not a Jedi Master, but he might be too adsorbed in self-help therapy to be a successful Sith Lord.
The Official Star Wars Blog » Seth Green vs. Warren the Ape with Lightsabers! 2010
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There is a typo in the last paragraph – it should read absorbed, not adsorbed.
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The cosmic-ray driven electron-induced reaction of halogenated molecules adsorbed on ice surfaces has been proposed as a new mechanism for the formation of the polar ozone hole.
Archive 2010-01-01 EliRabett 2010
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Rosenberg used X-rays from the Advanced Photon Source to bombard chiral molecules adsorbed on a magnetic substrate and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to track changes in the molecular bonds.
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Given the misery and waste caused by Marxism in all it forms over the last 100 years and the continuing assault waged by Marxists against democratic capitalism, I do not want as USA President someone who has has adsorbed many of those views and beliefs to an extent that can not be explained away.
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The cosmic-ray driven electron-induced reaction of halogenated molecules adsorbed on ice surfaces has been proposed as a new mechanism for the formation of the polar ozone hole.
Commander Coincidence EliRabett 2010
mercy commented on the word adsorbed
Accumulate (liquids or gases) on the surface.
Citation
August 31, 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word adsorbed
JM is adsorbed yet finds it strangely attractive.
June 13, 2010