Words starting with absorptionc
Maybe these words will be useful:
- absorptions — Plural form of absorption.
- absorptional — Relating to absorption.
- absorption — The absorption of a liquid, gas, or other substance is the process of it being soaked up or taken in.
- absorption band — a dark band in the absorption spectrum of a substance, corresponding to a range of wavelengths for which the substance absorbs more strongly than at adjacent wavelengths.
- absorption coefficient — a measure of the rate of decrease in the intensity of electromagnetic radiation, as light, as it passes through a given substance.
- absorption costing — a method of cost accounting in which overheads are apportioned to cost centres, where they are absorbed using predetermined rates
- absorption dynamometer — a device for measuring the torque or power of an engine in a process in which the energy supplied to the device by the engine is absorbed.
- absorption edge — a discontinuity in the graph of the absorption coefficient of a substance plotted against the wavelength of x-rays being absorbed, representing the minimum energy necessary to free electrons from particular shells of the atoms of the substance.
- absorption hygrometer — a hygrometer that uses a hygroscopic chemical to absorb atmospheric moisture.