adsorption

See also: Adsorption

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Audio (US): (file)

Noun

adsorption (countable and uncountable, plural adsorptions)

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

Related terms

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

Anagrams

prostanoid

Finnish

Noun

adsorption

genitive singular of adsorptio

French

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

Noun

adsorption f (plural adsorptions)

adsorption

Further reading

“adsorption”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.