单词 | adsorptive |
释义 | adsorptiveadj. Chemistry. Of or relating to adsorption; exhibiting or involving adsorption.In quot. 1978 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [adjective] > of or relating to named chemical reactions or processes > of, exhibiting, or causing adsorption adsorptive1893 1893 Exper. Station Rec. 1892–3 (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 4 433 (title) Investigations of the ‘adsorptive’ capacity and the hygroscopicity of soil constituents, A. Freiherrn. 1913 Jrnl. Agric. Res. 1 188 The presence of other mineral substances added to the soil may or may not increase or decrease the rate at which this adsorptive phenomenon takes place. 1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. xi. 703 The adsorptive material in oxidized mud. 1978 J. Updike Coup (1979) v. 193 There was in our young hero..an adsorptive chemical will that made him adhere to just those surfaces that would have repelled him. 2008 Guardian 12 June (Technol. section) 6/3 Thanks to carbon nanotubes and adsorptive stripping voltammetry, he's developed an objective method to measure that intense heat. Derivatives adˈsorptively adv. by means of adsorption. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [adverb] > by processes or substances affecting reactions > in an adsorptive manner adsorptively1908 1908 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 30 1015 He suggests that probably kieselguhr and perhaps also the cell residues act adsorptively. 1932 G. D. Fuller & H. S. Conard tr. J. Braun-Blanquet Plant Sociol. vi. 187 The resultant soil scarcely differs from the adsorptively saturated, mild humus of lime soils. 2001 M. W. Jornitz & T. H. Meltzer Sterile Filtration i. 69 In these situations the body being adsorptively retained is smaller than the filter's pore. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1893 |
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