#chemical binding

• 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.
• Priming — The act of priming and its result; the process of preparing, initiating, triggering, or starting up a technical system, an electrical circuit, or a hydraulic pump. In construction, it represents the application of a primer coat to seal pores, while in molecular biology, it defines the annealing of oligonucleotides (primers) onto the template DNA strand to begin synthesis.