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
But today’s 40% offers real income, alongside real shock absorption to shaky equity markets.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Despite decades of research, vitamin B12 deficiency remains common, particularly among older adults, vegans, vegetarians and people with conditions that affect absorption.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026
The trade-off for the shock absorption is that in a deep, sustained downturn, your portfolio will be exposed to more drawdown than a stricter rule would allow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Olbers’s counterargument was that the light from distant stars would be dimmed by absorption by intervening matter.
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
Whence great heat from the excited capillaries of the skin, large and quick pulsations of the heart, full and hard arteries, with great universal secretions and absorptions.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Vocabulary lists containing absorption
Chemistry - Introductory
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Photosynthesis - Middle School
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Chemistry - High School
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