Adsorption is a real word

MayberryMayberry Regular
edited September 2010 in Spurious Generalities
I was reading my lab manual and thought it had a typo when I read 'adsorption.' Then in the pre-lab work, it asked me to define 'adsorption.'
Wiki: Adsorption is the physical adherence or bonding of ions and molecules onto the surface of another phase (e.g. reagents adsorbed to solid catalyst surface).

Not to be confused with 'absorption.'
Wiki: Absorption is the incorporation of a substance in one state into another of a different state (e.g. liquids being absorbed by a solid or gases being absorbed by a liquid).

I was :facepalm::facepalm::facepalm::facepalm: the whole time I was copying out the definition.

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