Physical or chemical process by which one substance becomes attached to another
Sorption is a
physical and
chemical process by which one
substance becomes attached to another. Specific cases of sorption are treated in the following articles:
"the incorporation of a substance in one state into another of a different state"[1] (e.g.,
liquids being absorbed by a
solid or
gases being absorbed by a liquid);
The adsorption and absorption rate of a diluted solute in gas or liquid solution to a surface or interface can be calculated using
Fick's laws of diffusion.
^Crini, Grégorio; Badot, Pierre-Marie, eds. (2010). Sorption processes and pollution : conventional and non-conventional sorbents for pollutant removal from wastewaters. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté. p. 43.
ISBN978-2848673042.
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