An herb or substance that promotes absorption, soaks up liquid, or acts as a sponge. (Absorbefacient)

The substrate into which a substance is absorbed.

A substance with the ability to absorb another substance.

A material, usually a porous solid, which takes another material into its interior. When rain soaks into soil, the soil is an absorbent.

also called absorption oil. See absorption oil.

the ability to suck up fluid. One of the three primary attributes of SpongeBob, and the "A" in YAP. It symbolizes a willingness to "take things in" or to be "open" to things. One of the nice things about this quality is its opposite, expulsion. Just as SpongeBob is willing to be absorbent, he is just as willing to be expulsive. Both are critical, and they cannot be seperated. The two qualities compliment each other, and are necessary to each other. Just imagine if you did nothing but absorb - you'd pop. Also, if you expel too much, you shrivel. Concentration on any one of these attributes to the exclusion of the other is "dual" and leads to trouble. The path of the Absorbant is to reach mastery of both attributes, to be "nondual;" that is, to master both attributes as ONE attribute.

a material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance

having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up (liquids); "as absorbent as a sponge"

having ability to soak up or take in another substance.

A substances with the ability to attract dissolved or finely dispersed substances from another medium.

A material that extracts one or more substances from a fluid (gas or liquid) medium on contact, and which changes physically and/or chemically in the process. The less volatile of the two working fluids in an absorption cooling device.

A material which, due to an affinity for certain substances, extracts one or more such substances from a liquid or gaseous medium with which it contacts, and which changes physically, or both, during the process.

A solid material that takes in liquids (like a sponge). Penetration can be capillary, osmotic, solvent, or chemical. Some of the materials typically used, as absorbents are sawdust, clays, charcoal, and polyolefin type fibers.

Substance with the ability to take up or absorb another substance.

Commonly used term for a material designed to pick up and hold liquid hazardous materials and prevent the spread of the penetration of one substance into the inner structure of another.

absorb; or to take in by capillary attraction; as in the case of absorbent pads, booms or other collection materials used in the environmental industry for collection of liquids.

a substance, a solid or a liquid, that allows another substance, a liquid or a gas, to permeate it

A substance that will absorb, drink in or, soak up a liquid.

Having the ability to suck up liquid, gas, or heat.