absorbent

IPA(Pronunciation)

/əbˈsɔː.bn̩t/

Noun

archaic

Anything which absorbs. / (physiology, pluralized, now rare) The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.

Japanese Meaning

何かを吸収するもの、吸収物、吸収剤など / （生理学において、複数形で用いられ、現在はほとんど使われない）吸収過程を行う器官、例えば動物のリンパ管や植物の根の末端部分

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The lab kept an absorbent on hand to mop up chemical spills quickly.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

研究室では化学薬品のこぼれを素早く拭き取るために吸収材を常備していた。

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Sense（1）

Anything which absorbs.

In the Southern Ocean the winter is not so excessively cold, but the summer is far less hot, for the clouded sky seldom allows the sun to warm the ocean, itself a bad absorbent of heat: and hence the mean temperature of the year […] is low.

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Sense（2）

(physiology, pluralized, now rare) The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.

Sense（3）

(medicine) Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance, e.g., iodine, which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.

Sense（4）

(chemistry) A liquid used in the process of separating gases or volatile liquids, in oil refining.

absorbents

（ plural ）

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