#adsorbi

• Adsorbate — A fluid substance (gas, liquid, or dissolved solute) whose molecules are attracted, retained, and concentrated as an extremely thin molecular film upon the surface of a solid or liquid substrate (the adsorbent). The adsorbate constitutes the mobile component within the system prior to adhesion and the resulting layer on the interface after the process. Its energetic state and molecular dynamics change radically upon interacting with active sites.
• To adsorb — To attract, bind, and concentrate atoms, molecules, or ions from a fluid phase (gas or liquid) onto the surface or interface of a solid or liquid substrate. This physical or chemical process occurs via residual intermolecular forces or covalent bonds, strictly distinguished from the paronym verb 'to absorb', which entails penetration into the bulk volume. It is a spontaneous, typically exothermic surface-driven phenomenon.
• Adsorption — The act of adsorbing and its dynamic outcome; the physical-chemical process by which a fluid accumulates across a limited superficial boundary, forming a fine molecular film. It is the verbal action noun equivalent to the more common term 'adsorption', sometimes preferred in technical Romanian texts to emphasize the operational duration of surface capture.
• Adsorbed — Bound and retained upon the surface or interface of a solid or liquid substrate (adsorbent) via intermolecular forces or chemical bonds. The term describes the state of molecules, ions, or atoms originating from a fluid phase that have left the bulk medium to form a thin, concentrated layer at the boundary between two phases.