absorption
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Within 30 fs, its reflectance spectrum shifted dramatically and developed features linked to the appearance of a new optical absorption band.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
Combining these two, Caballero infers that shift from a safety premium to an absorption premium explains about 0.75 percentage points of the roughly 2.5 percentage point rise in yields since 2015.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
But today’s 40% offers real income, alongside real shock absorption to shaky equity markets.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
"But this originates from a very fundamental level of physics, which is the interference between different optical absorption processes."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
With peaceful absorption Biff settled down to the details of the newspaper before him.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Organic growth was 10%, of which 4% was same clinic growth and 6% from clinic absorptions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
A record of fascinations is at risk of careening into self-indulgence, but “Affinities” is also a record of absorptions, both Dillon’s and those of the artists he loves.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023
These epithelia are active in the secretion and absorptions of molecules.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Their quirky absorptions in, say, physics, baseball stats or investment strategies add enormously to human advancement.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2012
The things absorb certain moistures and chemicals from the air and sun, and shed those absorptions when kept in darkness or from the fresh air.
From Aunt Jane's Nieces out West by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
Vocabulary lists containing absorption
Chemistry - Introductory
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Photosynthesis - Middle School
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Chemistry - High School
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