{"id":19597,"date":"2017-01-14T23:02:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T23:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=19597"},"modified":"2017-01-14T23:02:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T23:02:01","slug":"chemistry-what-is-adsorption-vs-absorption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/chemistry-what-is-adsorption-vs-absorption\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemistry:  what is adsorption vs absorption?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor shares the term <em>adsorption<\/em>, which he recently discovered.<\/h1>\n<p>Apparently, <em>adsorption<\/em> is the event when free-moving molecules become attached to a solid surface.  It perhaps can be witnessed when water fogs a windshield.  Another example is the use of a charcoal filter to remove organic molecules.  Such might be the case inside a stove fan that recirculates air:  the air is pushed against a charcoal filter, where the smoke particles become lodged.<\/p>\n<p>With the more familiar absorption, the absorbed molecules aren&#8217;t just held on the surface, but move in among the molecules of the absorbing medium.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Mortimer, Charles E.  <u>Chemistry<\/u>, 6th ed.  Belmont:  Wadsworth, 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor shares the term adsorption, which he recently discovered. Apparently, adsorption is the event when free-moving molecules become attached to a solid surface. It perhaps can be witnessed when water fogs a windshield. Another example is the use of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/chemistry-what-is-adsorption-vs-absorption\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chemistry:  what is adsorption vs absorption?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2103],"class_list":["post-19597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","tag-how-a-recirculating-stove-fan-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19597"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19612,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19597\/revisions\/19612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}