adsorption

See also: Adsorption

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adsorption

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Etymology

Borrowed from German Adsorption, from ad- +‎ (Ab)sorption.

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Noun

adsorption (countable and uncountable, plural adsorptions)

1. The adhesion of a liquid or gas on the surface of a solid material, forming a thin film on the surface.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with absorption.

Antonyms

• desorption

Derived terms

• adsorptional
• adsorption calorimetry
• bioadsorption
• coadsorption
• deadsorption
• hemadsorption
• hemoadsorption
• immunoadsorption
• photoadsorption
• physisorption
• postadsorption
• preadsorption
• readsorption
• sodium adsorption ratio

Related terms

• adsorb
• adsorbability
• adsorbable
• adsorbate
• adsorbent

Translations

process of forming a film on the surface of a solid

Bengali: পরিশোষণ (poriśōśon) Bulgarian: адсо́рбция f (adsórbcija) Catalan: adsorció f Chinese: Mandarin: 吸附 (zh) (xīfù) Estonian: adsorptsioon Finnish: adsorptio (fi) French: adsorption (fr) f German: Adsorption (de) f Greek: προσρόφηση (el) f (prosrófisi) Hindi: अधिशोषण (adhiśoṣaṇ) Hungarian: adszorpció (hu) Indonesian: penjerapan (id), adsorpsi (id) Irish: asú m, asúchán m Italian: adsorbimento (it) ? Japanese: 吸着 (ja) (kyūchaku) Malayalam: അധിശോഷണം (ml) (adhiśōṣaṇaṁ) Polish: adsorpcja (pl) f Portuguese: adsorção (pt) f Russian: адсо́рбция (ru) (adsórbcija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: адсо̀рпција f Roman: adsòrpcija (sh) f Spanish: adsorción (es) f Swedish: adsorption (sv) c Turkish: adsorpsiyon (tr) Vietnamese: hấp phụ (vi)

See also

• absorption
• sorption

Anagrams

• prostanoid

Finnish

Noun

adsorption

1. genitive singular of adsorptio

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

adsorption f (plural adsorptions)

1. adsorption

Further reading

• “adsorption”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.