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sorb
see also: Sorb
Noun

sorb (plural sorbs)

  1. The service tree, Sorbus domestica.
  2. Any of various related trees, including the wild service tree, S. torminalis, and the rowan, S. aucuparia.
  3. The fruit of any of these trees, especially of the service tree.
Translations Translations Verb

sorb (sorbs, present participle sorbing; past and past participle sorbed)

  1. (chemistry) To absorb or adsorb.
    • 1971, E. K. Duursma, M. G. Gross, Chapter Six: Marine Sediments and Radioactivity, National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Oceanography Panel on Radioactivity in the Marine Environment, Radioactivity in the marine environment, page 148 ↗,
      In sediments with large cation exchange capacities, as calculated from the mineral composition (Duursma and Eisma, unpublished), the radionuclides were somewhat more strongly sorbed (Figure 2).
    • 2005, J. E. Barbash, The Geochemistry of Pesticides, Barbara Sherwood Lollar (editor), Treatise on Geochemistry 9: Environmental Geochemistry, Second Edition, page 548 ↗,
      The exchange of pesticide compounds between aqueous solution and the sorbed phase in soils is not instantaneous.
    • 2007, Danny D. Reible, Chapter 21: Contaminant Processes in Sediments, Marcelo H. García (editor), Sedimentation Engineering: Processes, Management, Modeling, and Practice, page 966 ↗,
      The quantity sorbed is often found to be well represented by the combination of a compartment exhibiting linear, reversible sorption and a compartment that exhibits nonlinear and thermodynamic irreversib[l]e sorption.
Related terms
Sorb
Noun

sorb (plural sorbs)

  1. A member of a Slavic people living in Lusatia in eastern Germany.
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