Absorption

Absorption is the process through which one thing absorbs the other.

It is thus the process of taking in.

For a person or an animal, absorption is the process of a substance getting into the body through the eyes, skin, stomach, intestines, or lungs.

Absorption is also the taking in of water and dissolved minerals and nutrients across cell membranes.

In nuclear physics, it is the action or process through which nucleus absorbs neutrons.

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