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What does adsorption mean?

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  1. The adhesion of a liquid or gas on the surface of a solid material, forming a thin film on the surface.
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In addition, the surface atoms are capable of both adsorption and absorption of chemical compounds.
The strong adsorption on such materials at surface or interfaces in the form of an orientated monomolecular layer is termed surface activity.
Separation of charged solutes can also cause problems owing to adsorption or electrophoretic migration.
All data points in the adsorption isotherm represent an average of three experiments.
The adsorption of surfactant molecules onto the aggregate surface changes the nature the surface from hydrophilic to hydrophobic.
Glass coverslips were washed with ethanol followed by distilled H2O and allowed to air dry for 30 min before sample adsorption.

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