adsorbing material
1Activated carbon — Activated carbon, also called activated charcoal, activated coal or carbo activatus, is a form of carbon that has been processed to make it extremely porous and thus to have a very large surface area available for adsorption or chemical reactions …
2Hygroscopy — is the ability of a substance to attract and hold water molecules from the surrounding environment. This is achieved through either absorption or adsorption with the absorbing or adsorbing material becoming physically changed, somewhat, by an… …
3Freundlich equation — The Freundlich Adsorption Isotherm is an adsorption isotherm, which is a curve relating the concentration of a solute on the surface of an adsorbent, to the concentration of the solute in the liquid with which it is in contact.The Freundlich… …
4headspace concentration — A technique for concentration all or most of the flammable or combustible liquid vapors in a sample onto a tube of charcoal, a wire coated with charcoal, a charcoal coated polymer, or some other adsorbing material which will later be desorbed… …
5paper chromatography — noun chromatography that uses selective adsorption on a strip of paper • Hypernyms: ↑chromatography * * * noun : chromatography with paper strips or sheets as the adsorbent through which the solution flows by gravity or is sucked up by… …
6van der waals adsorption — ˈvandə(r)ˌwȯlz noun Usage: usually capitalized W : adsorption due to van der Waals forces between the adsorbed molecules and the adsorbing material opposed to chemisorption …
7chro|ma|tog|ra|phy — «KROH muh TOG ruh fee», noun. the separation and analysis of mixtures of chemical compounds by the use of an adsorbing material, so that the different compounds become adsorbed in separate sections: »The amounts and kinds [of amino acids] in the… …
8Mathematics and Physical Sciences — ▪ 2003 Introduction Mathematics Mathematics in 2002 was marked by two discoveries in number theory. The first may have practical implications; the second satisfied a 150 year old curiosity. Computer scientist Manindra Agrawal of the… …
9Mineralized tissues — Mineralized tissues: sea sponge, sea shells, conch, dentin, radiolarian, antler, bone Mineralized tissues are biological tissues that incorporate minerals into soft matrices. Typically these tissues form a protective shield or structural… …
10Metal-organic framework — Metal Organic Frameworks are crystalline compounds consisting of metal ions or clusters coordinated to often rigid organic molecules to form one , two , or three dimensional structures that can be porous. In some cases, the pores are stable to… …
