Adsorption Memes

Nothing kills the mood faster than a chemistry terminology error! While your partner's thinking about physical attraction, you're having a mental breakdown over someone confusing absorption (taking something INTO a material) with adsorption (molecules sticking ON THE SURFACE of a material). That single letter 'd' makes all the difference between a night of passion and a night of passionate peer review comments. Chemistry nerds have priorities, and apparently, proper surface chemistry vocabulary ranks higher than romance.