absorption
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My current home is also stocked with multistage, HEPA-filter air purifiers that combine carbon absorption and ionizer technology all around the house, which came in handy during Covid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Nearly 30 hours of exposure time collected enough light for the team to identify extremely faint absorption features in the spectra of the distant galaxies.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
Citi says margins could realistically be negative given fixed-cost absorption, high raw-material headwinds and worse-than-consensus volumes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
“They promote absorption within the bowel so they slow down movement within the bowel but they also may stimulate the bowel to grow.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The emission or absorption of one particle by another corresponds to the dividing or joining together of strings.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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
Richard Prince, Sherrie Levine and other “re-photographers” delighted and outraged viewers with their canny absorptions of other artists’ work.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2010
It consists of an apparatus with two holders, that is to say, so arranged as to put the least liquid possible in contact with the gas produced, and to thus prevent absorptions and losses.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 by Various
Vocabulary lists containing absorption
Chemistry - Introductory
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Photosynthesis - Middle School
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Chemistry - High School
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