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Updated: June 17, 2025
The light of the sun, sifted out by the spectroscope, shows all the colours but not all the tints of the rainbow. We know that these lines are due to the absorptive action of vapours existing in the atmosphere of the sun, and from the position of the lines we can tell what the vapours are. Thus, hydrogen by its absorptive action produces four of the bright lines.
The function of drainage or sewerage is very important, and the perversion of it brings on much ill health. The principal perversion to the function of sewerage is that of constipation, the location of which is limited to the lower portion of the large intestine, a section of the canal least endowed with digestive and absorptive power.
It is by no means improbable that, as Mattei argued in 1878, this is actually the case. It is known that the vagina possesses considerable absorptive power. Thus Coen and Levi, among others, have shown that if a tampon soaked in a solution of iodine is introduced into the vagina, iodine will be found in the urine within an hour. And the same is true of various other substances.
To reduce the reflection to the absolute minimum, the ships had each been painted with a 99% absorptive black. In space they would be exceedingly difficult targets.
During the summer, when the camels are required to find their own sustenance along the road, a large caravan travels but a wretched eight miles a day, the remainder of the time being occupied in filling his capacious thistle and camel-thorn receptacle; this comes of the scarcity of good grazing along the route, compared with the number of camels, and the consequent necessity of wandering far and wide in search of pasturage, rather than because of the camel's absorptive capacity, for he is a comparatively abstemious animal.
"'Tis put th' kibosh on many a good man in th' ould Force has this same dhrink. Th' likes av Yorkey there" he jerked his head at the lighted window "shud never touch ut never touch ut! . . . Cannot flirrt wid a bottle 'tis wedded they wud be tu ut. Now meself" he paused impressively "I can take me dhrink like a ginthleman can take ut, or lave ut alone." Absorptive demonstration followed.
The amount required for a given population cannot be determined by any fixed rule, so much depending on the amount of water used per capita, and on the absorptive character of the irrigated soil. In the case of villages, one acre to each five hundred of the population would generally be found ample.
It has, furthermore, been proved that the absorptive property of substances increases as their reflecting qualities diminish. Hence, the radiating power of a surface is inversely as its reflecting power. It is for this reason that the polished metallic sheathing on the cylinders of locomotive engines, and on the boilers of steam fire engines, is not only ornamental but essentially useful.
Briggs reports a case in which a wine glass was introduced into the rectum, and although removed twenty-four hours afterward, death ensued. Hockenhull extracted 402 stones from the rectum of a boy of seven. Landerer speaks of a curious case in which the absorptive power of the rectum was utilized in the murder of a boy of fifteen.
The developing embryo at the end of the suspensor grows out to a varying extent into the forming endosperm, from which by surface absorption it derives good material for growth; at the same time the suspensor plays a direct part as a carrier of nutrition, and may even develop, where perhaps no endosperm is formed, special absorptive "suspensor roots" which invest the developing embryo, or pass out into the body and coats of the ovule, or even into the placenta.
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