absorption
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Pavord said iron tablets are best taken on an empty stomach, ideally first thing in the morning, and advised avoiding tea or coffee around the time they are taken because they can inhibit iron absorption.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
While increasing rainfall can reduce methane absorption by limiting the movement of gas through soil, drier conditions can produce the opposite effect.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
More job cuts and A.I. demands are expected, and the wholesale absorption of Hulu’s app into the Disney+ interface is still happening.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
Finally, HEPA-filter air purifiers that combine carbon absorption and ionizer technology combat everything from wildfire smoke to Covid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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
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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
In two such flowers as the primrose and the violet, where the absorptions, to judge by the colours, are almost complementary, are the chemically active rays the same?
From Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by John Tyndall
Vocabulary lists containing absorption
Chemistry - Introductory
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