Suppose that, after an experiment, there is a residuum of gas, neither absorbable by alkali nor water, contained in the upper part of the jar AEF, Pl.
In the stomach all action on starch is arrested; but in the intestine, through the effect of a ferment contained in the pancreatic juice, this action is resumed, and the rest of the starch is converted into absorbable sugar.
Another principle contained in pancreatic juice takes effect on the albuminous matters, and converts them into absorbable peptones.
Their action is very similar to the action of giant cells in the soft tissues about absorbable foreign bodies.
That is because the acid gas is absorbable by water, and in proportion as the gas impregnates the water, the latter rises in the tube.
This jar is full of that acid in its gaseous state--it is inverted over mercury instead of water, because, being absorbable by water, this gas cannot be confined by it.
Yes; and it may be kept any length of time in this manner over water, as it is not, like the nitric and nitrous acids, absorbable by it.
The spectroscope was formed entirely of fluor-spar, and a vacuum had been created in it, for these radiations are extremely absorbable by the air.
Sagnac, particularly, has shown that there can be obtained a gradually decreasing scale of more or less absorbable rays, so that the greater part of their photographic action is stopped by a simple sheet of black paper.
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