04/03/2026
ADsorbent vs. ABsorbent – What a difference a letter makes
How many of you have heard the word adsorb? No, not absorb, but adsorb. Most people haven’t, but it makes a huge difference. Let’s look at the difference in the context of spill clean-up:
Adsorption: retention of the pollutant on the surface of the sorbent. A substance that takes up another material which coats the exterior surface and does not fully incorporate into the substance.
ABsorption: retention of the pollutant within the sorbent itself. A substance that soaks up and traps a liquid in such a way that the incorporated material loses much of its own identity.
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