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absorbed

[ab-sawrbd, -zawrbd] / æbˈsɔrbd, -ˈzɔrbd /


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The research team attributes this improvement to the formation of dense water channels facilitated by the adsorbed water molecules within MOFs.

From Science Daily • May 28, 2024

Those could be chemical: organic molecules adsorbed on clay minerals in the muds.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 20, 2022

Ions dissolved in water can be adsorbed onto — or desorbed from — the surfaces of clay minerals.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

The team first thought that the surfaces of the droplets adsorbed the endotoxins, but the process was too sensitive to justify that explanation.

From US News • Jun. 30, 2011

Her eyes swept the scene before her, adsorbed greedily its every detail, then rested on the orchard to the right.

From Miss Gibbie Gault by Bosher, Kate Langley




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