Adsorb Definition

ăd-zôrb, -sôrb
adsorbed, adsorbing, adsorbs
verb
To take up by adsorption.
American Heritage
To collect (a gas, liquid, or dissolved substance) in condensed form on a surface.
Webster's New World

(chemistry) To accumulate on a surface, by adsorption.

Wiktionary

Origin of Adsorb

  • From French, from Latin ad- (“to”), + sorbere (“suck in”).

    From Wiktionary

  • ad– Latin sorbēre to suck

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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AADADS

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BRBORB

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