sorbent
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sorbent
Example Sentences
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In addition to daily water production, sorbent materials that harvest atmosphere water could also play an important role in future applications such as dehumidification, agriculture irrigation, and thermal management for electronic devices.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2023
Once there’s lots of CO2 in the sorbent, they use a process that requires temperatures of hundreds and hundreds of degrees to turn it into CO2 that can be stored as a pressurized gas.
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2021
The air passes over a special solid sorbent filter that traps the carbon dioxide.
From The Verge ● Sep. 9, 2021
It could be large grants for research to find better sorbent materials, for instance, which would be similar to government investments that long ago helped nurture the solar- and wind-power industries.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2019
“I han’t got time to attend to thy mopseys now, what with all this sorbent washing.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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