An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Th desorption of surface substances by ultraviolet radiation.

→ photo-; → desorption.

Same as → physisorption.

→ physical; → adsorption.

A kind of → adsorption in which the forces involved are → intermolecular  → van der Waals forces. Same as → physical adsorption. See also → chemisorption.

Physi-, from → physical; → sorption.

The absorption of a material by a medium or system after having been released from absorption by that same medium or system. → absorption; → desorption; → sorption.

Verbal noun of resorb, from L. resorbere, from → re- + sorbere "to swallow, suck up."

Bâzšam, from bâz "again, back," → re-, + šam, variant of zšâm, as in âšâm, âšâmidan "to drink, to sip;" Av. šam- "to drink, sip, swallow;" Skt. cam, camati "to sip, dirink, lick up, absorb."

Absorption which varies with the wavelength of radiation incident upon an absorbing substance.

Selective, verbal noun of → select; → absorption.

The decrease in the radiation from a material caused by the absorption of a part of the radiation by the material itself.

→ self-; → absorption.

The process of sorbing. The state of being sorbed. → absorption; → adsorption.

Verbal noun of → sorb