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SORPTION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sorption mean?
• SORPTION (noun)
The noun SORPTION has 1 sense:
1. the process in which one substance takes up or holds another (by either absorption or adsorption)
Familiarity information: SORPTION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The process in which one substance takes up or holds another (by either absorption or adsorption)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("sorption" is a kind of...):
action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sorption"):
absorption; soaking up ((chemistry) a process in which one substance permeates another; a fluid permeates or is dissolved by a liquid or solid)
adsorption; surface assimilation (the accumulation of molecules of a gas to form a thin film on the surface of a solid)
Derivation:
sorb (take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption)
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