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What does desorb mean?

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Verb
  1. (of a substance) To remove (or be removed) from a surface onto which it was adsorbed or through which it was absorbed
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The majority of the gas is adsorbed in the coal matrix and, in order to get that gas to desorb, the pressure must be reduced.
Surfactant enhanced remediation involves the use of surfactant formulations to selectively desorb and dissolve target contaminates from the solid to liquid phase.
Theoretically, the material ensuring maximum climatic comfort must be able to quickly absorb moisture and to desorb it also quickly, ideally by following the day and night cycles.
It seems that the chemisorbed molecules begin to desorb or decompose.
This was followed by plasma desorption in the 1970s, which uses high energy ions to desorb and ionise molecules.
Atoms are ionised and desorb from the sample surface ready for MS analysis.

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