Sorb

Quick meaning: Sorb is a noun meaning The service tree, Sorbus domestica.

Meaning

The service tree, Sorbus domestica.

More Meanings

1. Any of various related trees, including the wild service tree, S. torminalis, and the rowan, S. aucuparia.
2. The fruit of any of these trees, especially of the service tree.
3. (chemistry) To absorb or adsorb.

Example Sentences

The exchange of pesticide compounds between aqueous solution and the sorbed phase in soils is not instantaneous.

The quantity sorbed is often found to be well represented by the combination of a compartment exhibiting linear, reversible sorption and a compartment that exhibits nonlinear and thermodynamic irreversib[l]e sorption.

As contaminated water or air flows through GAC, contaminants sorb (stick) to the GAC surface and are removed. […] It also sorbs low levels of some types of metals. […] The “spent” GAC may be replaced with fresh GAC or regenerated to remove the sorbed contaminants.

1971, E. K. Duursma, M. G. Gross, Chapter Six: Marine Sediments and Radioactivity, National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Oceanography Panel on Radioactivity in the Marine Environment, Radioactivity in the marine environment, page 148, In sediments with large cation exchange capacities, as calculated from the mineral composition (Duursma and Eisma, unpublished), the radionuclides were somewhat more strongly sorbed (Figure 2).

Word Forms

• sorbs
• sorbing
• sorbed

Synonyms for sorb

Depending on context, synonyms include take up.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include take up, rowan, wend, service, sorbus, serviceberry.

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