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SORBENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sorbent mean? 

SORBENT (noun)
  The noun SORBENT has 1 sense:

1. a material that sorbs another substance; i.e. that has the capacity or tendency to take it up by either absorption or adsorptionplay

  Familiarity information: SORBENT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SORBENT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A material that sorbs another substance; i.e. that has the capacity or tendency to take it up by either absorption or adsorption

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

sorbent; sorbent material

Hypernyms ("sorbent" is a kind of...):

material; stuff (the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sorbent"):

absorbent; absorbent material (a material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance)

adsorbent; adsorbent material (a material having capacity or tendency to adsorb another substance)

Derivation:

sorb (take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption)


 Context examples 


The speed at which each substance is carried along by the mobile phase depends on its solubility (in a liquid mobile phase) or vapor pressure (in a gas mobile phase) and on its affinity for the sorbent.

(Chromatography, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Any of a diverse group of techniques used to separate mixtures of substances based on differences in the relative affinities of the substances for two different media, one (the mobile phase) a moving fluid and the other (the stationary phase or sorbent) a porous solid or gel or a liquid coated on a solid support.

(Chromatography, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)



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