Sorbent

Description

A general, all-inclusive name used for Absorbent and Adsorbent materials. For a comparison table of sorbents used in museum cases to passively minimize aerosol pollutants, please see Scavenger.

Resources and Citations

• Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997

• The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998

• Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online, https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 2000