Sentence examples for adsorptive from inspiring English sources

Modern protective overgarments are made of fabric containing activated charcoal or other adsorptive forms of carbon.

He packed a vertical glass column with an adsorptive material, such as alumina, silica, or powdered sugar, added a solution of the plant pigments to the top of the column, and washed the pigments through the column with an organic solvent.

Adsorptive processes, either exclusive of or in addition to biological uptake, serve to remove elements from the upper ocean and deliver them to greater depths.

At first, only adsorptive solids were used as the stationary phase, because liquid coatings were swept away by the mobile phase.

Previously gas chromatography had employed chemical bonding of an organic stationary phase to solids to reduce adsorptive activity; István Halász of Germany exploited these reactions to cause a separation based on liquid solution effects in the bonded molecular layers.

Its high adsorptive power also makes it commercially important in the preparation of animal litter trays and assorted degreasing agents and sweeping compounds.

Factors that determine plant root uptake include the solubility and mobility of the chemical in question, the adsorptive properties of the charged soil surfaces, and the surface area and uptake capacity of the roots of the individual plant.