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any example for sorption?

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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:

  • Absorption – "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 a liquid);
  • Adsorption – the physical adherence or bonding of ions and molecules onto the surface of another phase (e.g., reagents adsorbed to a solid catalyst surface);
  • Ion exchange – an exchange of ions between two electrolytes or between an electrolyte solution and a complex.

The reverse of sorption is desorption.

In this sense the example of absorption will also be a example of sorption
so an example of absorption is soaking up spilled milk with a paper towel.


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