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What is the difference between Adsorb and absorb?

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D. Loukas

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Answered Feb 02, 2021

The words absorb and adsorb easily to confuse one another because they have similar spelling. However, there are many differences between the two words. With absorb, a substance would be taken into another substance.

Absorb is also related to ions, molecules, and atoms, where they penetrate into a liquid or a gas material.Adsorb differs because the gas or liquid is not absorbed. Instead, the liquid or gas will come from on the surface. This process can be found in instances of water purification or synthetic resins.

With absorb, the particles will be found inside. With adsorb, the particles or substances will just stick to the surface.

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J. Alva

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Answered Jan 29, 2021

To adsorb is to come up with molecules or atoms from a gas, fluid, or solid form to produce a thin film on an exterior or interior surface. When something adsorbs, it clings to something's surface and forms a visible layer, one that can be seen easily.

The adsorption layer can be retrieved, and it can be identified as being different from the surface below. Absorption, on the other hand, is a very internal process. When something absorbs, it penetrates the body of something else and becomes part of the whole.

You cannot eliminate it by touching it, and you cannot see how it separates. Absorption means to soak up through a chemical or physical process of a certain action. When something absorbs, it enters and becomes a part of the liquid.

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Answered Oct 09, 2020

When a material soaks up some amount of gas or liquid into it, it can be said that it has absorbed the substance. On the other hand, when some fume or liquid collects on a material's surface, then the process can be called adsorb. Absorb means a means by which a substance is taken into another substance.

Absorb is also a condition in which the atoms, molecules, and ions penetrate a solid-gas or liquid material. Absorb is also a means by which a material is taken into another material. The momentum of a photon is taken into by another entity. Adsorb can be characterized as a process by which the liquid or gas is not absorbed, but it only forms on the surface. Absorb is connected to the surface.

The occurrence of adsorbing is widely used in the production of water purification and synthetic resins. With absorb, you see that something moves inside an object. Adsorb involves adhesion and dissolution or dispersion. In items that perform absorb, atoms, molecules, and additional particles are taken inside. Conversely, in adsorb, the atoms, molecules, and other substances stick to the surface.

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B. Wright

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Answered Sep 07, 2020

In the English language, there are many words that easy to confuse because they have similar spelling. Two of those words that are easily confused are adsorbed and absorb. There is a one letter difference between the two words, which is why it is easy to confuse, but they differ in meaning.

Absorb is a process where the material is gaining some fluids. This fluid can be either a gas or a liquid. An example of the absorption process is ions entering a liquid. Adsorb is when a liquid or gas forms at the surface of the material. This is related to the surface, whereas absorb is in relation to volume.

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Answered Jun 16, 2020

When a material takes in some amount of gas or liquid into it, then this is an example of material being absorbed. When a gas or liquid collects on the surface of a material, then the process can be called adsorb. If you spill wine on your carpet, you will take a clean rag and press on the wine so that the cloth absorbs the spill.

You could also have a hostile takeover of a business, and one absorbs the other. Adsorb means to collect gasses on a surface, and this word is mostly used in a laboratory setting. You could adsorb noxious vapor on a microscope slide and examine it.

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C. Lucan

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Answered Jun 07, 2020

Absorb can be defined as a process through which a material draws some amount of fluid, whether liquid or gas, into it. Adsorb on the contrast is also a process through which some liquid or gas molecules gets accumulated on the surface of another material. Adsorb is related to surface while absorb is related to volume. Absorb can also be explained as a condition whereby ions, atoms, or molecules enter a liquid, solid, or a gas material.

It can also be explained as the process by which the energy of a photon is drawn up by another entity. In absorb, there is movement inside an object, whereas, for adsorb, the substance would form a layer on the surface of another object. Adsorb involves adhesion, unlike absorb, which involves diffusion. For absorb, atoms, or molecules are taken internally. While the particles, atoms, and molecules would adhere to the surface in Adsorb.

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