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Definition: Adsorption |
AdsorptionNoun1. The accumulation of molecules of a gas to form a thin film on the surface of a solid. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Aerospace | The adhesion of a thin film of liquid or gas to the surface of a solid substance. The solid does not combine chemically with the adsorbed substance. See sorption, absorption, chemisorption. (references) |
Environment | Removal of a pollutant from air or water by collecting the pollutant on the surface of a solid material; e.g., an advanced method of treating waste in which activated carbon removes organic matter from waste-water. (references) |
Health | The condensation of gases, liquids, or dissolved substances on the surfaces of solids. It includes adsorptive phenomena of bacteria and viruses as well as of tissues treated with exogenous drugs and chemicals. (references) |
Mining | A. Adherence of gas molecules, or of ions or molecules in solution, to the surface of solids with which they are in contact, as methane to coal or moisture to silica gel. CF:absorption b. The assimilation of gas, vapor, or dissolved matter by the surface of a solid or liquid. c. The attachment of a thin film of liquid or gas, commonly monomolecularin thickness, to a solid substrate. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In chemistry, adsorption of a substance is its concentration on a particular surface: the molecules of a liquid or gas form a film on a solid body.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Adsorption."
Synonym: AdsorptionSynonym: surface assimilation (n). (additional references) |
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Health | After adsorption, the virus penetrates the host cell and enters the cytoplasm by pinocytosis (via clathrin-coated pits). (references) | |
Business | Process water pre-treatment or wastewater modalities include biological treatment, activated sludge reduction, chemical coagulation, flocculation, filtration, oxidation, incineration and activated carbon adsorption. (references) | |
Graph 3 shows that imports of spectrophotometers were also not affected by the recession of 1999. The main exception was in the case of atomic adsorption spectrophotometers, which experienced a drop of over 20% in imports. (references) | ||
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| "Adsorption" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Adsorption" is used about 94 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 94 | 33,845 |
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Expressions using "adsorption": adsorption complex ♦ adsorption pump ♦ gas adsorption chromatography. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "adsorption": potassium-adsorption, sodium-adsorption. | |
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| Language | Translations for "adsorption"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إمتصاص كيميائي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | адсорбция, поглъщане (absorption, immersion, intake, intussusception, take over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 吸附 (adsorb, adsorbed, adsorbing, adsorptive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | adsorptio (sticking to a surface), binding (adhesion, binding, bond, bonding, combination, joining, link, weave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | adsorptie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | absorptiopumppu (adsorption pump, sorption pump), absorptiokromatografia (absorption chromatography, adsorption chromatography, liquid-solid chromatography), vedyn adsorptio (iron sulphide acts as a catalytic poison, thus promoting hydrogen adsorption), sorptio (a general term covering both absorption and adsorption, sorption), katalyyttimyrkky (iron sulphide acts as a catalytic poison, thus promoting hydrogen adsorption), imeytyminen (a general term covering both absorption and adsorption, absorption, infiltration, percolation, seepage, sorption, wicking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | adsorption (f), adsorption. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Adsorption. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προσρόφηση (occlusion, sorption). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ספיח". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | adszorpció (uptake), felületi elnyelés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | adsorbimento. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 吸着 (adsorb, attachment, sorption). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きゅうちゃく (adsorb, attachment, sorption). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 흡착. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | adsorptionay adsorção, absorção (absorbing, absorption, absorption of a particle, absorption of radiation, aspiration, energy absorption, inceptive, input-output, loading, particle absorption, retention, sorption, uptake). (various references) adsorbţie. (various references) адсорбция. (various references) adsorpcija. (various references) adsorción. (various references) adsorption (virus receptor interaction). (various references) emme (absorption, admission, aspiration, soak, sorption, suck, sucking, suction, vacuum). (various references) адсорбція. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "adsorption": adsorptions. (additional references) | |
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"Adsorption" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adforton, adsorbtion. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-n-o-o-p-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: adoptions, parotoids, tandooris. | |
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| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-n-o-o-p-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: adsorptions, anthropoids. | |
+2 letters: deportations. | |
+3 letters: gonadotropins. | |
+4 letters: disapprobation, gonadotrophins, periodizations, postgraduation, predominations, preordinations, prognosticated. | |
+5 letters: achondroplastic, depolarizations, disapprobations, disproportional, outdoorsmanship, philanthropoids, postirradiation, preponderations, radiotelephones. | |
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