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Surbed vs Sorbed - What's the difference?

surbed | sorbed |

As verbs the difference between surbed and sorbed

is that surbed is to set (a stone) edgewise, in a position different from that which it had in the quarry while sorbed is past tense of sorb.

surbed

English

Verb

  • To set (a stone) edgewise, in a position different from that which it had in the quarry.
  • * 1728 , John Houghton, A collection for the improvement of husbandry and trade (page 291)
    • Do they dip or lye in piano horizontis''? Whether better ''surbedded'' , in ''work , or laid as they grew in the bed?
  • * 1836 , Gilbert White, The natural history of Selborne (page 9)
    • It is a freestone, cutting in all directions; yet has something of a grain parallel with the horizon, and therefore should not be surbedded .
  • * 1997 , Derek Lovejoy Partnership, Spon's landscape handbook (page 165)
    • 400mm wide X 200mm thick, bedded and jointed in 1:3:12 white cement:lime:sand mortar, all stones to be free of quarry sap and not laid surbedded .

    sorbed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sorb)
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    sorb

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The wild service tree (Sorbus torminalis ) of Europe.
  • The rowan tree.
  • The fruit of either of these trees.

    • Derived terms

    * sorb-apple

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (chemistry) To absorb or adsorb.
  • * 1971 , E. K. Duursma, M. G. Gross, Chapter Six: Marine Sediments and Radioactivity'', National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Oceanography Panel on Radioactivity in the Marine Environment, ''Radioactivity in the marine environment , page 148,
    • In sediments with large cation exchange capacities, as calculated from the mineral composition (Duursma and Eisma, unpublished), the radionuclides were somewhat more strongly sorbed (Figure 2).
  • * 2005 , J. E. Barbash, The Geochemistry of Pesticides'', Barbara Sherwood Lollar (editor), ''Treatise on Geochemistry 9: Environmental Geochemistry , Second Edition, page 548,
    • The exchange of pesticide compounds between aqueous solution and the sorbed phase in soils is not instantaneous.
  • * 2007 , Danny D. Reible, Chapter 21: Contaminant Processes in Sediments'', Marcelo H. García (editor), ''Sedimentation Engineering: Processes, Management, Modeling, and Practice , page 966,
    • The quantity sorbed is often found to be well represented by the combination of a compartment exhibiting linear, reversible sorption and a compartment that exhibits nonlinear and thermodynamic irreversib[l]e sorption.

    Derived terms

    * sorbed phase

    Related terms

    * sorption

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