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SOAKING UP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(chemistry) a process in which one substance permeates another; a fluid permeates or is dissolved by a liquid or solid
Synonyms:
absorption; soaking up
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("soaking up" is a kind of...):
sorption (the process in which one substance takes up or holds another (by either absorption or adsorption))
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "soaking up"):
imbibition ((chemistry) the absorption of a liquid by a solid or gel)
