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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
adsorb .
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Examples
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Even as plastic breaks down it never biodegrades, and instead slowly but surely incorporates itself into our ecosystem: Plastic also adsorbs hydrophobic pollutants, like PCBs, DDT.
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The story adsorbs the facts, sustains them, and circulates them repeatedly, far and wide.
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Europe adsorbs a part of the Egyptian labour force.
Amir Madani: ElBaradei Against the Mummified Power of Pharaoh 2010
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The story adsorbs the facts, sustains them, and circulates them repeatedly, far and wide.
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Unfortunately, as it adsorbs water it generates enough heat to sometimes cause second-degree burns.
Band-aid solutions Edward Willett 2006
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Unfortunately, as it adsorbs water it generates enough heat to sometimes cause second-degree burns.
Archive 2006-10-08 Edward Willett 2006
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- Inside the candle there is activated carbon which adsorbs dissolved substances and takes away any possible taste from the water.
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Charcoal adsorbs organic substances which cause disagreeable color and taste.
3. Technologies 1985
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Salt in the dyebath increases the proportion of direct or reactive dye that adsorbs onto the fibre.
Chapter 7 1969
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The study, published today in New Phytologist, reveals how a species of birch tree adsorbs chemical compounds from neighbouring marsh tea plants, Rhondodendron tomentosum, in a unique 'defence by neighbour strategy.'
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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