"sorbed" in the verb sense
1. sorb, take up
take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
"sorbed" in the adjective sense
1. occluded, sorbed
of a substance) taken into and retained in another substance
"the sorbed oil mass"
"large volumes of occluded hydrogen in palladium"
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