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What does absorptive mean?

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Adjective
  1. Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe. [First attested in the mid 17th century.]
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By contrast, the floor of pine forests was covered thinly by needles, and had much less absorptive capacity.
Because of its very porous nature, charcoal has the particularly high ratio of surface area to weight required of an absorptive material.
This absorptive layer is made of material other than an alginate, foam, hydrocolloid, or hydrogel.
We make PHS HAMPPEP B13 and HAMPPEP NATURAL of hard PVC in the following variants: reflective, one-side absorptive, and double-side absorptive.
This inflow of foreign investment and credit capital may well exceed the absorptive capacity of economies already prone to overproduction.
Gluten causes the intestinal mucosa to lose its villous structure and absorptive capacity.

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