A perfectly white body is one which reflects all of the rays of light and absorbs none.
A red body, for instance, absorbs all colors except red and reflects red only.
A black body absorbs all rays and a perfectly dull black body is visible only by contrast; that is, we do not see it but we are aware that there is something invisible before our eyes.
I have remarked that the manners of high society induce a habit of idleness which absorbs half of the life of a woman without permitting her to feel that she is alive.
Cold water absorbs more carbon dioxide than warm water.
Or an organized body of immigrants absorbs previous settlers and evolves from within itself all the agencies of government.
A deep sand absorbs the moisture from the surface, and draws down into its depths all the stream.
She danced and rode charmingly, and was gracious and free from the spiteful envy that sometimes comes when a garrison belle is so attractive that the gossips say she absorbs all the devotion.
The bare earth absorbssome water, to be sure, but far less than the humus of the forest.
It is very porous, and it absorbs water like a sponge.
Activity renews itself and claims larger and larger satisfaction, till at last the habit of it absorbs the whole energy of the man.
To attain skill in anything a degree of application is necessary which absorbsmore time than the acquisition of knowledge about the thing, so that the remarkably skilful man is not likely to be the erudite man.
Either a body absorbs light, or it reflects or refracts it, or does all these things.
If it neither reflects nor refracts nor absorbs light, it cannot of itself be visible.
You see an opaque red box, for instance, because the colour absorbs some of the light and reflects the rest, all the red part of the light, to you.
A vigorous healthy mind absorbs every kind of force, even that which is hostile to it, and makes it bone and flesh of its bone and flesh.
A woman uses it to feed her own life: she absorbs it, and does not create it.
The glare of pomp and pleasure is analogous to the motion of the blood; it absorbs all their affection and attention; they are torn from it as from the only good in this world, and return to their home as to a place of exile and condemnation.
It is a little surprising to find Sarcey, so recently as 1889, laying it down that "a character is a master faculty or passion, which absorbs all the rest.
This last æs, he says, absorbs most cadmia, and acquires the greatest resemblance to aurichalcum.
No colour that absorbslight should be used on the walls.
It absorbs the necessary water from the tissues, and thus it acts as a corroding poison.
There was at=20first a hissing sound when he opened the valve, and it grew colder in the lock, since air absorbs heat from surrounding objects when it expands.
The meshes are filled in by growing tissue, and as it grows the tissue absorbs part of the sponge, which is itself an animal tissue and acts like catgut.
The ammonia absorbs heat when it vaporizes and gives up heat when it is compressed and liquified.
Note how aqua vitae absorbs into itself all the colours and smells of flowers.
Therefore we may rather believe it to be the nature and potency of our luminous atmosphere which absorbs the images of the objects existing in it, than the nature of the objects, to send their images through the air.
This is found in Asia Major, and shines so brightly that it absorbs its own shadow, and when it dies it does not lose this light, and its feathers never fall out, but a feather pulled out shines no longer.
Water falls in rain; the earth absorbs it from the necessity for moisture; and the sun evaporates it, not from necessity, but by its power.
The black dress will make a woman look pale, for the reason that the black absorbs whatever color there may be in her face.
A light-colored wall reflects illumination, a dark-colored wall absorbs it; hence the amount of illumination is increased or diminished by the color of the walls.
It may require more butter, as no vegetable absorbs more than potatoes.
While it is broiling on a rather slow fire, turn it over several times and keep basting with melted butter; the more butter it absorbs the better the fish.
The shades of evening were falling, but the air was still permeated with light as a sponge absorbs the water.
That the alluvium absorbs the heat better, and retains it longer, would appear from the following, the only observations I could make, owing to the tenacity of the soil.
I can account for this anomaly only on the supposition that the thick bed of alluvium, freely exposed to the sun (not clothed with jungle), absorbs the sun's rays and parts with its heat slowly.
The hair hygrometer depends for its action upon the fact that a hair, freed from oil, not only absorbs moisture from the atmosphere, but elongates when damp and contracts when dry.
The calcium carbide, at red heat, absorbs nitrogen, forming an intermediate product from which, by further processes, are made ammonia and nitric acid.
By the action of the fan, fresh particles of air are perpetually brought in contact with the face, and every fresh particle of air absorbs some heat from the skin.
Because it absorbs all odoriferous effluvia, whether they arise from putrefying animal or vegetable matter.
The liquid vaporized absorbs heat from the body whence it issues; and the body deprived of the liquid by evaporation, loses heat thereby.
The black soot absorbs heat very quickly from the fire, and the metal conducts it to the water.
Because thread absorbs the perspiration of the hands: and 2ndly--It conducts away the heat of our hot hands.
Because the black absorbs the solar heat: and 2ndly--The kid will not allow the heat of the hand to escape through the glove.
Ether very rapidly evaporates; and (as it evaporates) absorbs heat from the burning head, producing a sensation of cold.
Though the black skin of the negro absorbs heat more plentifully than the white skin of a European, yet the blackness prevents the sun from blistering or scorching it.
Wind is only air in motion; and the more quickly the air passes over our body, the more rapidly it absorbs the heat therefrom.
Because air absorbs its carbonic acid; and when its carbonic acid is absorbed, the water is flat and insipid.
Because airabsorbs the carbonic acid, which produced the effervescence.
As the air absorbs and diminishes light, the higher we ascend, the less light will be absorbed.
When wind travels over dry climes or thirsty deserts, it becomes so dry itself, that it absorbs vapour from the clouds, and disperses them.
Because the surface of the primrose absorbs the blue and red rays of solar light, and reflects the yellow ones.
Because every fresh gust of air absorbs a fresh portion of heat; and the more rapid the succession of gusts, the greater will be the quantity of air absorbed.
Life is learning, but whether in theory or practice what a man genuinely learns is what he absorbs, and what he absorbs depends on the energy which he himself puts forth in response to his surroundings.
By language, by training, by simply living with others, each of us absorbs into his system the social atmosphere that surrounds us.
The conversation touched upon public men and political history, and it was then revealed to his visitor that Mr. Cleveland had that order of intellect which absorbs not from books but from personal contact with men of experience.
The lower the temperature at which it is liquefied, the less is the pressure required upon the oxygen and the greater is the amount of latent heat which it absorbs in evaporating.
When the mainspring is fully wound the roller rests in the curved depression of the cam and the effort required to lift the roller up the incline absorbs some of the mainspring's power.
On the other hand when the mainspring is nearly run down, the roller is descending an inclined plane and absorbs less of the power.
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