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- noun Plural form of
absorbent .
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Examples
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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_.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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Other chemistry products with potential applications include detergents and absorbents.
Chemical dispersants an unknown quantity in addressing oil spill
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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
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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)
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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
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