Absorbency vs Absorbent - What's the difference?
absorbency | absorbent |
(obsolete) The action of absorbing.
The quality of being absorbent.
(physics) The ratio of the absorbance or optical density of a substance to that of a similar body of pure solvent.
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Having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive.
Anything which absorbs.
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(physiology, pluralized, now, rare) The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.
(medicine) Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance, e.g., iodine, which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.
(chemistry) A liquid used in the process of separating gases or volatile liquids, in oil refining.
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As nouns the difference between absorbency and absorbent
is that absorbency is (obsolete) the action of absorbing while absorbent is anything which absorbs .As an adjective absorbent is
having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive .absorbency
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Alternative forms
* (physics) absorbancyNoun
(absorbencies)Detergent Can Be So Much More," BusinessWeek , 1 May (retrieved 9 Feb. 2009):
- Product benefits are quickly copied, whether it's cleaning power or diaper absorbency .
Synonyms
* absorptivenessReferences
absorbent
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Those paper towels were amazingly absorbent . That was quite a spill.
Derived terms
* absorbent ground * nonabsorbentNoun
(en noun)page 225,
- In the Southern Ocean the winter is not so excessively cold, but the summer is far less hot, for the clouded sky seldom allows the sun to warm the ocean, itself a bad absorbent of heat: and hence the mean temperature of the year is low.
