Get the FREE one-click dictionary software for Windows
or the iPhone/iPad and Android apps
Verb: desorb  dee'sorb
  1. (chemistry) remove from a surface on which it is adsorbed
    "the substance was desorbed"
     
  2. (chemistry) go away from the surface to which (a substance) is adsorbed
    "The gas molecules desorbed from the catalyst surface"

Derived forms: desorbed, desorbing, desorbs

Type of: disappear, go away, remove, take, take away, vanish, withdraw

Encyclopedia: Desorb