Reactive adsorption (and its reverse, reactive desorption) resembles
dissociative adsorption
(and its reverse,
associative desorption) but one fragment adds to an
adsorbate rather than to a surface site.
Source:
PAC, 1976, 46, 71
(Manual of Symbols and Terminology for Physicochemical Quantities and Units - Appendix
II. Definitions, Terminology and Symbols in Colloid and Surface Chemistry. Part II:
Heterogeneous Catalysis)
on page 84