adsorb

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ədˈzɔːb/, /ədˈsɔːb/
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Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)b

Verb

adsorb (third-person singular simple present adsorbs, present participle adsorbing, simple past and past participle adsorbed)

(transitive, physical chemistry, physics) To accumulate on a surface, by adsorption.
The gas was purified by adsorbing the impurities onto active carbon.

Derived terms

Related terms

absorb

Translations

to accumulate on a surface

Bulgarian: адсорби́рам (bg) impf or pf (adsorbíram)
Catalan: adsorbir
Czech: adsorbovat
Finnish: pidättää (fi), adsorboida (fi)
German: adsorbieren (de)
Greek: προσροφώ (el) (prosrofó)
Hungarian: adszorbeál (hu), (felületen) megköt, (felületileg) elnyel/leköt
Irish: asúigh
Italian: adsorbire (it)
Latin: absorbere
Polish: adsorbować (pl) impf, zaadsorbować pf
Portuguese: adsorver (pt)
Romanian: adsorbi (ro)
Russian: адсорби́ровать (ru) (adsorbírovatʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: адсорби́рати

Roman: adsorbírati (sh)
Spanish: adsorber (es)
Vietnamese: hấp phụ (vi)

See also

Adsorption on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

B roads, Bardos, Boards, Bordas, Broads, Brodas, abords, adorbs, bardos, boards, broads, dobras

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