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CHEMISORB
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they chemisorb ... he / she / it chemisorbs
Past simple: chemisorbed
-ing form: chemisorbing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Take up a substance by chemisorption
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "chemisorb" is one way to...):
sorb; take up (take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Derivation:
chemisorption; chemosorption (adsorption (especially when irreversible) by means of chemical instead of physical forces)