Preferred Label : absorption;
IUPAC definition : the process of one material (absorbate) being retained by another (absorbent); this
may be the physical solution of a gas, liquid, or solid in a liquid, attachment of
molecules of a gas, vapour, liquid, or dissolved substance to a solid surface by physical
forces, etc. in spectrophotometry, absorption of light at characteristic wavelengths
or bands of wavelengths is used to identify the chemical nature of molecules, atoms
or ions and to measure the concentrations of these species.;
Origin ID : A00036;
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- See also
- Semantic type(s)
the process of one material (absorbate) being retained by another (absorbent); this
may be the physical solution of a gas, liquid, or solid in a liquid, attachment of
molecules of a gas, vapour, liquid, or dissolved substance to a solid surface by physical
forces, etc. in spectrophotometry, absorption of light at characteristic wavelengths
or bands of wavelengths is used to identify the chemical nature of molecules, atoms
or ions and to measure the concentrations of these species.
