transitive verb. 1a :to take in(something, such as water) in a natural or gradual way a sponge absorbs water charcoal absorbs gas plant roots absorb water. What does absorbed mean? verb (used with object)to suck up or drink in(a liquid); soak up: A sponge absorbs water. to swallow ...
What mass of water at 25.0^{\circ}C added to a Styrofoam cup containing two 60.0-g ice cubes from a freezer at -17.0^{\circ}C will result in a final temperature of 5.0^{\circ}C for the drink? Many vacuum flasks have steel walls ...
After germination, the oak seedlings were transplanted to styrofoam trays (Takopot TA-913, cell volume 0.58 dm3, 22 cells in each tray) at the beginning of June 1996. The elm seedlings were raised in the nursery bed for their first growing season. At the beginning of the second growing ...
There are big marble headstones on one side of him and on the other side, a pile of plastic flowers, bits of light blue ribbon, and Styrofoam crosses that say “I Love You.” Caren Chesler The lack of fanfare seems unfair. Without a headstone, no one would even know he was under ...
Their reports find that, “Refuse trucks have become the most rapidly growing natural gas vehicle sector in the US. Their use has expanded more rapidly as a percentage than any other vehicle sector. Its 89 percent increase was four times the overall 20 percent increase (between 2002 and 2004...
Four decades ago, less than 5 percent of American were cremated when they died. Now that figure stands at nearly half. This is how cremation actually works, and what happens to a culture when its attitude about how to memorialize the dead undergoes a rev
Four decades ago, less than 5 percent of American were cremated when they died. Now that figure stands at nearly half. This is how cremation actually works, and what happens to a culture when its attitude about how to memorialize the dead undergoes a rev