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Sorption

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Either of the processes of absorption and adsorption; sorbing. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the process in which one substance takes up or holds another (by either absorption or adsorption) wordnet

Etymology

Back-formation from absorption; representing Latin sorbeō (“I suck in”).

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