What is "absorbent material"

Usage examples of "absorbent material".

Much of the skin not exposed to high levels of heat in supersonic flight was composed of radar-absorbent material, and the huge engine air inlets for the four Kuznetsov NK-32 afterburning engines had been redesigned so the engines' compressor blades wouldn't reflect radar energy.

Three wicks were resting against the side of the bowl opposite the handle at different angles, each with one end sticking out of the liquid fat, and the rest of the absorbent material soaking in it.

Tunic and breeches again, but of very soft, thick, absorbent material in a deep crimson with vivid blue trim.

Using her blanket, she dried herself as well as she could with the non-absorbent material and rinsed out the bloodied sleeves of her coverall and the front of it where blood had spattered.

These were 1) use of liquid filtrates which were usually applied using lint or other absorbent material.

Screens of heat-absorbent material were set up, and then a door dropped open, a door that had never before budged while the forges were working.

Ginny, however, more than appreciated the tiny absorbent material, vaginally inserted, that took away much of the problem of the monthly period.

First Joanna rapped on the partition wall, but since it was composed of a sound-absorbent material, the meager noise was not enough to rouse the office manager.

The ceiling, instead of being plastered, was paneled with a sound absorbent material in areas about two feet square.

Clamped to its docking end, layer upon layer of radiation-absorbent material fanned out in a dark sheath, refrigerated down to cosmic background temperature.

Han said, entering the room, a white sheet of absorbent material draped around his neck so that it hung down his bare torso.

Which was also why the lights were dimmed and surfaces padded in acoustically absorbent material.