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Definition of Reabsorbs
1. reabsorb [v] - See also: reabsorb
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reabsorbs
Literary usage of Reabsorbs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chemistry of Cyanogen Compounds and Their Manufacture and Estimation by Herbert E. Williams (1915)
"On exposure to air it then reabsorbs all water lost on heating to 100° C., ...
Like the pure cobalt salt it reabsorbs water on exposure to air and reverts ..."
2. Cements, Limes, and Plasters: Their Materials, Manufacture, and Properties by Edwin Clarence Eckel (1905)
"This, on exposure to moisture and air carrying carbon dioxide, reabsorbs carbon
dioxide and reassumes its original composition—calcium carbonate. ..."
3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1900)
"During the process of dehydrating the color becomes blue, getting darker as the
temperature rises; then upon exposure to the air it reabsorbs water rapidly ..."
4. Popular Science Monthly (1901)
"... and oxide of calcium remains, which readily absorbs water and slacks, as it
is termed, and in time reabsorbs the carbonic acid that was driven off. ..."
5. Microscopical Morphology of the Animal Body in Health and Disease by Carl Heitzmann (1882)
"The inspissated blood contained in these vessels reabsorbs a portion of the liquid
from the tubule and supplies the liquid in the tubules with a certain ..."
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