absorption
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"A remarkable Ruby: Absorption in dense gas, rather than evolved stars, drives the extreme Balmer break of a Little Red Dot at z = 3.5" in Astronomy & Astrophysics.
From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2025
Absorption decreases until the proton exchange reaches equilibrium.
From Science Daily • Jan. 5, 2024
The instrument, called a Long Differential Optical Absorption Spectrometer, collects information by beaming light from a parking garage to reflectors set at different heights in Fairbanks, and then studying the information that comes back.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 2022
Figure 23.32 Digestive Secretions and Absorption of Water Absorption is a complex process, in which nutrients from digested food are harvested.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
"On the Absorption of Gases by Water," read before the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, October 21, 1803.
From A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science by Williams, Henry Smith
Vocabulary lists containing absorption
Chemistry - Introductory
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Photosynthesis - Middle School
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Chemistry - High School
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