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Synonyms for sorb

take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption

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It could be concluded from these results that both soils continued on sorbing phosphorus up to sixty days of incubation period.
A variety of materials exist that have the potential for use in sorbing P from ditch flow (table 1).
[Cl.sup.-], S[O.sub.4.sup.2-] and [I.sup.-] were used as anionic species and a large number of radionuclides from low to highly sorbing were used.
To immobilize cells of microorganisms, we used granules with buckwheat husk (BWH) and barley husk (BH) as carrying sorbing agents.
Several studies have shown that applications of phosphorus sorbing materials rich in Al, Fe, or Ca can reduce soluble P concentrations in both soils and manure (Callahan et al., 2002; Elliott et al., 2002; Staats et al., 2004; Stout et al., 1998; Summers et al., 1996).
(1996), who reported variation of the travel path of a nonlinearly sorbing solute front in time with Freundlich exponent.
Thus, the aim of the present study is to investigate a) to what extent PCBs and lindane are absorbed by in vitro intestinal Caco-2 cells; b) the effect of sorbing constituents on absorption of the HOCs, including whether HOCs mobilized from soil during digestion contribute to uptake into the intestinal cells; and c) which factors are likely to have the largest impact on oral bioavailability of the soil-borne HOCs.
The greater the proportion of 'active' (sorbing) surface covered by OM, the slower the subsequent P sorption.
In the new product area, FiberTech is focusing on SMS composites for hygiene and medical applications, a family of encapsulating laminates for water, hydrocarbons, acid neutralizers and biohazards, SMS pads for sorbing hydrocarbons and sonic bonded laminates for wipes, hygiene and industrial uses.
First, for low phosphorus (P) sorbing sandy soils commonly used for agriculture in south-western Australia, we wished to test whether the P buffer capacity of soil (PBC) decreased as more P was applied in a previous year.
Thus, for example, the very low P sorbing River Sands on the north bank of the Herbert near Ingham are well discriminated by [K.sub.river] as are the very high sorbing Black Organic Clays in the north-eastern part of the study area and towards the centre of the study area on the south bank of the Herbert (Fig.
However, their analysis includes data from a number of studies with sorbing systems which introduced considerable uncertainty in the estimation of [beta].
The most straightforward problem associated with the determination of labile P in highly sorbing soils is the difficulty associated with the accurate measurement of solution P at the low concentrations frequently found in highly P-sorbing soils (Wolf et al.
Aluminium amorphous compounds have a larger sorbing capacity than Fe compounds in highly weathered soils (Syers et al.
These materials have medium to high P sorption capacities and represent the major P sorbing materials in soil profiles of the Bassendean Dune soil association.