adsorb
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From French adsorber, from Latin ad- (“to”) + sorbēre (“suck in”).
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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.
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to accumulate on a surface
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Adsorption on Wikipedia.Wikipedia