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• n  a material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance
• a  having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.)
  as absorbent as a sponge

• The simplest device of all consists only of a beer can filled with absorbent material and a clothespin to clamp on the nose.
• But Rink was convinced that his technology which makes pollutants permanently adhere to the inner core of an absorbent material had to have a profitable application .
• Even the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn is trying to cash in on the ubiquity of the super-absorbent towel infomercial with a YouTube parody designed to lure younger, tech-savvy .

• absorbent material
• absorptive

• nonabsorbent

News & Articles

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• Oil-Dri's Retail and Wholesale Products Group Announces Price Increase for Clay Floor Absorbents
  Oil-Dri Corporation of America announced today that it is implementing a 6% price increase for clay floor absorbent products to its janitorial supply customer base effective August 1, 2013. The price increase ...
  June 10, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance
• Tampon Applicator Invented So We Wouldn’t Enjoy Tampons Too Much
  Finally, something we care about makes The New York Times Magazine's annual innovation issue: tampons. The tampon as we know it wasn't invented until the thirties, when John Williamson scandalized his father by stuffing a condom full of the super-absorbent World War I bandages their employer, the Kimberly-Clark Corporation, manufactured ... More »
  June 10, 2013 - New York Magazine
• Cars Collide on Route 4: Woman in Critical Condition After Two-Car Collision in Quechee
  Above, Vermont Agency of Transportation worker Henry Marcy cleans up debris and absorbent material for the auto fluids from a two car accident on Route 4 in Quechee yesterday morning.
  June 8, 2013 - Valley News

Quotes

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• Robert S Langer in PR Newswire (press release)
  For the first time a group was able to overcome the enormous technical hurdles in creating a super-absorbent polymer made entirely out of food,said Dr. Robert Langer, Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and world...
• Abdul Matin in ReliefWeb (press release)
  Drought has dried bushes and plants which naturally resist the flow of water to some extent. It has also hardened the land and made it less absorbent,Abdul Matin Edrak, the director of ANDMA, told IRIN in Kabul on 6 August.
• Alton Brown in Atlanta Journal Constitution
  Laughing brains are more absorbent,Brown explained. "You can teach people who are laughing and enjoying themselves and not drooling at their desk. If they laugh, they learn more."