Absorption? Unusually large bog will absorb one

Usage examples of osmosis.

Comanche had that blissful look of the bayman who has eaten just a little too much, Ned had assumed the glassy stare with which he always succumbs to the processes of digestion, osmosis, transmogrification and apotheosis on such occasions, and the rest were trying their land-legs about the banquet hall.

This vein, however, has been blocked artificially and treated to reduce osmosis.

Here are proper conditions for osmosis, and this process of dialysis will take place whenever the intestinal contents holds more dialyzable material than the blood.

In electrodialysis and reverse osmosis, electrified water passes through membranes that remove the salt.

She was astounded at the variety of hiding places Debra came up with, and began, by osmosis almost, to feel suspicious herself.

And though a silence fell at that point, somehow, through the inexplicable osmosis of communication Olivia had known ever since she was six or (hereabouts, that he had bigamously remarried in his new land and that somewhere, at the opposite end of the world, there were brothers and sisters she would never see.

Perhaps the process is more like a kind of osmosis, with the red blood cells migrating across some specially constituted membrane.

I reflect that their bodies must have solved the problem of osmosis, which dehydrates seagoing Humans.

Most of the things in the EVA locker were obvious enough-spacesuits and hazardous-atmosphere suits, four flybikes cleverly folded into their storage niches under the spacesuit closet, heavy-duty handlamps, camping gear, osmosis masks and scuba gear with flippers and spearguns, one EM-flying belt, three boxes of tools, two well-equipped med-kits, six sets of night-vision and IR goggles, an equal number of lightweight headsets with mike-bead communicators and vid cameras, and comlogs.

Donald Ross was born in Dornoch, and before he became America's most famous golf-course architect in the first half of the twentieth century he walked its links regularly, worked and golfed there, and absorbed its spirit as if by osmosis.

Skinsuits had not changed much in all those centuries, except to incorporate rebreathing filaments and osmosis panels.

First of all he developed a petro-plastic spansule that was airtight, one hundred percent resistant to osmosis, neutral to body tissues, free of surface condensation, not even fractionally biodegradable—.

Volumes of given gases and total internal reflection and osmosis and litmus paper and the lime-water equation.

Disused CloudTunnel, ribbed with vacuum tubes, tended to gain gas and therefore additional weight through osmosis over the millennia.

As she watched Geneva dribble vanilla extract over the ice in the glasses, as she carried the glasses to the table, and as Geneva followed with cans of Coke, Leilani explained Sinsemilla's passion for purging toxins through reverse osmosis in hot baths.