processes including adsorption and absorption, by which contaminants attach themselves to solid particles, thereby retarding their transport or movement.
The action of soaking up or attracting substances; process used in many pollution control systems.
Noncommittal term used instead of adsorption or absorption when it is difficult to discriminate experimentally between these two processes. Gold, Loening, McNaught and Sehmi, 1987
Removal of pesticide from solution by soil or sediment via mechanisms of adsorption and absorption.
a process in which something is taken up and held; as used in the Superfund Program, sorption refers to technologies that use a sorption agent that attracts, takes up, and holds hazardous waste for removal
the term used to denote the combination of absorption and adsorption processes in the same substance.
The taking up of one substance by another, either absorption or adsorption.
the process in which one substance takes up or holds another (by either absorption or adsorption)
Refers to the taking up and holding of water by various processes such as absorption and adsorption.
Process by which one substance takes up or holds another.
Collection of a substance of the surface of a solid by physical or chemical attraction.
A term describing adherence of chemical substances to particles. It includes either absorption or adsorption.
The ability of some substances to soak up or attract contaminants and hold them. Also the general term for physical and chemical absorption and adsorption.
general term used to denote a specific form of adsorption
Compare with adsorption and absorption. Assimilation of molecules of one substance by a material in a different phase. Adsorption (sorption on a surface) and absorption (sorption into bulk material) are two types of sorption phenomena.
A generic term used to describe the uptake of a gas or vapor by a solid without distinction as to whether the process occurs by adsorption and/or absorption.
A process consisting of either absorption or adsorption.
A surface phenomenon which may be either absorption or adsorption, or a combination of the two; often used when the specific mechanism is not known.
Sorption refers to the action of either absorption or adsorption. As such it is the effect of gases or liquids being incorporated into a material of a different state and adhering to the surface of another molecule. 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 water).