English Explanatory Dictionary

adparticle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A cluster of atoms or molecules that is adsorbed onto the surface of a material.

Word forms

adparticle adparticles

Etymology

Revised spelling of ad particle popularized by Robert Gomer and Lynn W. Swanson's 1963 paper "Theory of field desorption", coined by chemists Roger Wortman, Robert Gomer, and Richard A. Lundy, in 1957 as a shortening of adsorption + particle.

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