â¢ SORPTION (noun). The noun SORPTION has 1 sense: 1. the process in which one substance takes up or holds another (by either absorption or adsorption). Familiarity information: SORPTION used as a noun is very rare.
All you need is some wire and a few hand tools, very inexpensive. There is also another extremely helpful tool that can end up saving you massive frustration and a lot of money in wire costs: a wire straightener. The easiest way to straighten jewelry wire is yep, with a wire straightener tool. Unfortunately, I was several years into making jewelry before I discovered nylon soft jaw pliers (the wire straightener tool). These pliers have square, flat, plastic tips on them.
Fly-cutting a wheel. Show here is a brass wheel (watch gear) being cut with a fly cutter. This is a 48 tooth 4mm wheel for a wrist watch chronograph. The circular pitch of this gear is about 0.01: each tooth is 0.007 high and 0.005 wide.