sorption
- noun
- /ˈsɔːrpʃən/
- Specialized
- The sorption of nutrients by roots is essential for plant health and growth.
Examples
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Processed air is then passed through a charcoal sorption bed cooled to minus 100 degrees Celsius by an air chiller made by Polycold Systems International of San Rafael, Calif.
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The remainder of the pollutants are stripped from the air stream, bound to sorption sites in the biomatrix bed, and finally converted by microbial action into carbon dioxide and water.
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The magnitude of G gives an idea about the type of sorption.
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The significance of the internal removal of CHA through sorption and other unknown means is uncertain.
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William Martin Worek is recognized for his work in combined heat and mass transfer as one of the leading experts in the area of sorption technologies as they apply to alternate cooling technologies.
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Although the water sorption and the Tg requirement energy are related, this fact should only be applied to a pure material, not a mixture, as discussed in the case of PEI-FNP.
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The sorption technology also eliminates the possible blocking problems that may occur from hydrocarbon pickup by the helium-3 in conventional pumps.
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Though I believe there is a causal link between plastic sorption, chemical uptake, and food chain contamination, we do not have a scientific study on the books that unequivocally proves this yet.
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Thus, the investigated materials must satisfy two assumptions: water sorption via hydrogen bonding occurs primarily in the amorphous area, and a constant weight sample under persistent and controlled storage conditions 45, 46.
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Also available are a wide assortment of roughing components, including flexible hoses, traps, thermocouple and ionization gauge tubes, sorption, and jet roughing pumps.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
The body takes in a substance like food or liquid
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sorption comes from the root sorb, which means 'to suck in' and is the same idea behind absorb. So, sorption is the process where one material takes up or holds another, either by soaking it in or by holding it on the surface.