adsorption

See also: Adsorption

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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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

 

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.