absorbents

The lacteals are known as the absorbents of the intestinal walls, and after digestion is accomplished, are found to contain a white, milky fluid, called _chyle_.

The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877

When the cellular absorbents are become insensible to their usual irritations, it most frequently happens, but not always, that the cutaneous branch of absorbents, which is strictly associated with them, suffers the like inability.

Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

When any one drinks a moderate quantity of vinous spirit, the whole system acts with more energy by consent with the stomach and intestines, as is seen from the glow on the skin, and the increase of strength and activity; but when a greater quantity of this inebriating material is drank, at the same time that the lacteals are excited into greater action to absorb it; it frequently happens, that the urinary branch of absorbents, which is connected with the lacteals by many anastomoses, inverts its motions, and a great quantity of pale unanimalized urine is discharged.

Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

Here I met fishermen desperate to be put to work as part of BP's Vessels Of Opportunity (VOO) program, using their boats to fish for oil instead of seafood by laying boom and absorbents and skimming.

Antonia Juhasz: BP's "Missing Oil" Washes Up in St. Mary's Parish, LA Antonia Juhasz 2010

Here I met fishermen desperate to be put to work as part of BP's Vessels Of Opportunity (VOO) program, using their boats to fish for oil instead of seafood by laying boom and absorbents and skimming.

Antonia Juhasz: BP's "Missing Oil" Washes up in St. Mary's Parish, LA 2010

Meanwhile, near the northeastern Chinese city of Dalian, officials said around 500 fishing vessels were using absorbents and dispersants to help soak up oil on a 183 square kilometer stretch of ocean.

Chinese Miner Apologizes for Leak 2010

Other chemistry products with potential applications include detergents and absorbents.

Chemical dispersants an unknown quantity in addressing oil spill 2010

With the exception of a small amount of boom outside of the Mouth of East Bay Junop, we saw no boom, skimmers, absorbents, or clean-up crews.

Antonia Juhasz: BP's "Missing Oil" Washes Up in St. Mary's Parish, LA Antonia Juhasz 2010

Many of the bay's nesting islands for birds are girded by oil containment boom, and crews in white disposable protective suits change out coils of absorbents to soak up the sticky mess.

Barataria Bay Oil Spill: Historic Estuary Now An Environmental War Zone (VIDEO) 2010

With the exception of a small amount of boom outside of the Mouth of East Bay Junop, we saw no boom, skimmers, absorbents, or clean-up crews.

Antonia Juhasz: BP's "Missing Oil" Washes up in St. Mary's Parish, LA 2010