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[ adjective ] (of a substance) taken into and retained in another substance

Synonyms

occluded

Examples

"the sorbed oil mass" "large volumes of occluded hydrogen in palladium"

Used in print

(Jay C. Harris and John R. Van Wazer, "Detergent...)

In the cleaning process , sorbed greasy soils become coated in this manner with an oriented film of surfactant .

Then during washing , the greasy soil rolls back at the edges so that emulsified droplets can disengage themselves from the sorbed oil mass , with the aid of mechanical action , and enter the aqueous phase .

Related terms

combined

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