adsorb

English

Etymology

From French adsorber, from Latin ad- (“to”) + sorbeō (“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)

2. (transitive, physical chemistry, physics) To accumulate on a surface, by adsorption.

   The gas was purified by adsorbing the impurities onto active carbon.

Derived terms

• adlayer
• adsorbable
• adsorbate
• adsorbed
• adsorber
• adsorption
• bioadsorb
• chemisorb
• chemosorb
• coadsorb
• deadsorb
• immunoadsorbed
• nonadsorbed
• nonadsorbing
• preadsorb
• preadsorbed
• readsorb
• unadsorbed

 

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

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