An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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A physical or chemical process by which a substance that has been sorbed (adsorbed or absorbed) by a liquid or solid material is removed from the material. Reverse of → sorption. → absorption; → adsorption.

Verbal noun of → desorb.

Th desorption of surface substances by ultraviolet radiation.

→ photo-; → desorption.