ADSORB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adsorb mean? 

• ADSORB (verb)
  The verb ADSORB has 1 sense:

1. accumulate (liquids or gases) on the surface

  Familiarity information: ADSORB used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADSORB (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they adsorb    ... he / she / it adsorbs   
Past simple: adsorbed   
Past participle: adsorbed   
-ing form: adsorbing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Accumulate (liquids or gases) on the surface

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "adsorb" is one way to...):

sorb; take up (take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

adsorbable (capable of being adsorbed or accumulated on a surface of a solid)

adsorbent (a material having capacity or tendency to adsorb another substance)

adsorbent (having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface)

adsorption (the accumulation of molecules of a gas to form a thin film on the surface of a solid)

adsorptive (having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface)

 Context examples 

Ibandronic acid binds to and adsorbs onto the surface of hydroxyapatite crystals in the bone matrix, thereby preventing osteoclast resorption.

(Ibandronic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent adsorbs to hydroxyapatite cells and reduces the number of osteoclasts, thereby inhibiting abnormal bone resorption.

(Etidronate Disodium, NCI Thesaurus)

Although the exact mechanism of action has yet to be fully elucidated, incadronic acid binds to and adsorbs onto hydroxyapatite crystals in the bone matrix, thereby preventing osteoclast resorption.

(Incadronic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

Although the exact mechanism of action has yet to be fully elucidated, neridronic acid binds to and adsorbs onto hydroxyapatite crystals in bone matrix, thereby preventing osteoclast resorption.

(Neridronic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

Pamidronic acid binds to and adsorbs onto hydroxyapatite crystals in the bone matrix, thereby preventing osteoclast resorption.

(Pamidronic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

Although its mechanism of action is not completely understood, pamidronate appears to adsorb to calcium phosphate crystals in bone, blocking their dissolution by inhibiting osteoclast-mediated bone resorption.

(Pamidronate disodium, NCI Thesaurus)

Clodronic acid adsorbs onto the surface of the hydroxyapatite crystals in bone matrix.

(Clodronic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

A technique for the separation of complex mixtures that relys on the differential affinities of substances for a gas or liquid mobile medium and for a stationary adsorbing medium through which they pass.

(Chromatography, NCI Thesaurus)

The enzyme is adsorbed intact through the gastrointestinal tract and has demonstrated therapeutic benefit.

(Bromelains, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent adsorbs and precipitates protein antigens in solution; the resulting precipitate improves vaccine immunogenicity by facilitating the slow release of antigen from the vaccine depot formed at the site of inoculation.

(Aluminum Sulfate Anhydrous, NCI Thesaurus)