Associations to the word «Desorption»

Wiktionary

DESORPTION, noun. The process in which atomic or molecular species leave the surface of a solid and escape into the surroundings; the reverse of absorption or adsorption

Dictionary definition

DESORPTION, noun. Changing from an adsorbed state on a surface to a gaseous or liquid state.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope