sorption
IPA: sˈɔrpʃʌn
noun
- (sciences) Either of the processes of absorption and adsorption; sorbing.
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Examples of "sorption" in Sentences
- Phosphorus sorption characteristics of productive and unproductive Niger soils.
- Andy's checking with a lexicol\-\expndtw-3 ogist in San Francisco to determine the interval for the ab\-\expndtw-4 sorption rate.
- Water sorption leads to aggregation, inactivation, and structural changes of alpha-CT as has been similarly shown to occur for many other proteins.
- Adsorption experiments with methanol show that the overall adsorption capacities of nanoparticles and bulk are almost identical, but the shapes of the sorption isotherms differ significantly and the adsorption kinetics increase dramatically.
- More information: Pimenidou P, Rickett G, Dupont V, Twigg MV, 'High purity H2 by sorption-enhanced chemical looping reforming of waste cooking oil in a packed bed reactor', is available online ahead of print publication in Bioresource Technology, doi: 10.1016/j. biortech.2010.06.079
- "Given the rapid sorption and persistence of high levels of nicotine on indoor surfaces, including clothing and human skin, our findings indicate that third-hand smoke represents an unappreciated health hazard through dermal exposure, dust inhalation and ingestion," said lead author Mohamad Sleiman, also of Berkeley Lab.
- More recently, however, Adam Bruckner, Steven Coons, and John Williams of the University of Washington undertook a study in which instead of compressing the air, they simply employed a fan to blow it against a zeolite sorption bed.27 Zeolite is an extreme desiccant, and can be used to reduce atmospheric water vapor concentrations to a few parts per billion, well below even Martian humidity.
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