Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name)
4. [processes and techniques by specific type]
5. physicochemical processes

Narrower term/s

• thermal desorption

Anotations

Scope note:

The process in which a material leaves the surface of the solid into which it was absorbed or adsorbed; it is the reverse of those processes. In conservation, adsorption may refer as well to intentional removal of absorbed or adsorbed material from a substrate through increased heat, decreased pressure, or other measures.