Definition of Adsorbable

1. Adjective. Capable of being adsorbed or accumulated on a surface of a solid.

Exact synonyms: Adsorbate
Antonyms: Absorbable
Derivative terms: Adsorb, Adsorbate

Definition of Adsorbable

1. Adjective. Able to be adsorbed ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Adsorbable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adsorbable

adscititiously
adscript
adscripted
adscription
adscriptive
adscripts
adsignification
adsignifications
adsignified
adsignifies
adsignify
adsignifying
adsorb
adsorbabilities
adsorbability
adsorbable (current term)
adsorbant
adsorbate
adsorbates
adsorbed
adsorbent
adsorbent material
adsorbents
adsorber
adsorbers
adsorbing
adsorbs
adsorp
adsorped
adsorping

Literary usage of Adsorbable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Animal Proteins by Hugh Garner Bennett (1921)
"deposited in great concentration at the surface of the fibre, but for good weight it is necessary to use also the less adsorbable and more diffusible tans, ..."

2. Studies in Immunity by Jules Bordet (1909)
"Physicists have shown that if they add identical volumes of a fluid containing adsorbable substances in increasing concentration to a fixed quantity of the ..."

3. The Chemistry of Colloids by John Foote Norton, Ellwood Barker Spear, Richard Zsigmondy (1917)
"This is accomplished by treating the fresh hide with the spent liquor, so that the least adsorbable constituents will be adsorbed first. ..."

4. Colloids in Biology and Medicine by Heinrich Bechhold (1919)
"(6) The colloids adsorbable from the cambial juice and the running sap are ... (c) The quantity of adsorbable colloidal constituents in the cambial juice ..."

5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1908)
"This he believes to be due to a non-adsorbable compound of the enzyme with the substrat. Such a compound does not seem to exist between cane sugar and date ..."

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