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(chemistry) the absorption of a liquid by a solid or gel
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imbibition
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n. (chemistry) the absorption of a liquid by a solid or gel the act of consuming liquids [syn: drinking , imbibing ]
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n. the act of imbibing.
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Imbibition is a special type of diffusion when water is absorbed by solids- colloids causing an enormous increase in volume. Examples include the absorption of water by seeds and dry wood. The pressure that is produced by swelling of wood had been used ...
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Imbibition \Im`bi*bi"tion\, n. [Cf. F. imbibition.] The act or process of imbibing, or absorbing; as, the post-mortem imbibition of poisons. --Bacon.
Usage examples of imbibition.
In spite of this, however, they are in great part dependent on the absorption of water through the general surface of the shoot, and the power of rapid imbibition possessed by their cell-walls, the crowded position of the small leaves on the stem, and special adaptations for the retention of water on the surface, have the same significance as in the foliose liverworts.
There were no brushstrokes, there was an infinite gradation of density, and the image was a surface phenomenon only with no imbibition, meaning no fluid of any kind was involved.
Imbibition is the tendency of granular rock to imbibe a fluid under the force of capillary attraction, in the absence of any pressure.