sorption
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of sorption
1905–10; extracted from absorption, adsorption ( def. ), etc.
Example Sentences
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Because information can be so easily repeated, neither concentration nor memory is critical to its ab sorption; at times they even interfere with the pleasure of reception.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his backyard a sizable cairn of rock samples gradually accumulated�a monument to Fred Schwartzwalder's ab sorption in geology.
From Time Magazine Archive
The root-hairs are filled with a dilute solution of various substances, as yet poorly understood, which plays an important tent part in the ab sorption of water and plant-food from the soil.
From Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall by Widtsoe, John Andreas
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