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ab•sorb•ance

Pronunciation: (ab-sôr'buns, -zôr'-), [key]
—n. Physics.
the capacity of a substance to absorb radiation, expressed as the common logarithm of the reciprocal of the transmittance of the substance. Also,ab•sorb'an•cy.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

absorb

absorbed

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