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nouna material having capacity or tendency to adsorb another substance
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adjectivehaving capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surfaceOpposite:
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- kaopectate trade name for a fixed-combination antidiarrheal drug that use kaolin as the adsorbent and pectin as the emollient
- bleaching earth an adsorbent clay that will remove coloring from oils
- elution the process of extracting one material from another by washing with a solvent to remove adsorbed material from an adsorbent (as in washing of loaded ion-exchange resins to remove captured ions); used to obtain uranium ions
- fuller's earth an absorbent soil resembling clay; used in fulling (shrinking and thickening) woolen cloth and as an adsorbent
- bleaching clay an adsorbent clay that will remove coloring from oils