What is "heat-absorbing"

Usage examples of "heat-absorbing".

I punched the ballast release, and felt a clunk rattle through the ship as a block of the heat-absorbing alloy was ejected from its bay.

Although the riders carried weapons, they were clad in rough mountain garb, with heavy cloaks of flexible laminate mail, body armor of acid-resistant and heat-absorbing organics, and knee-length boots of heavy polymer.

Now the lasers that had once threatened mankind directed their beams into carefully selected portions of the atmosphere, or onto heat-absorbing target areas in remote regions of the earth.