adsorbed

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Sometimes poultices cause a tumor or deposit to be expelled through the skin rather than being adsorbed, all with rather spectacular pus and gore.

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  • The current anthrax vaccine adsorbed (AVA) vaccine is given in six doses -- at zero, two and four weeks then again at six, 12 and 18 months -- below the skin, or subcutaneously, with annual boosters. —  Medlogs - Recent stories
  • The "elite" business schools have been churning out greedy, self-adsorbed, cretins with MBAs for years, and the system could no longer contain their gambling. —  Why Now?
  • A dielectric constant tensor,?, can be defined for the adsorbed film which, upon choosing an effective film thickness, de, so that? is isotropic whenever the mean molecular polarizability of the adsorbed species is isotropic, takes a form essentially identical to that obtained using the Lorentz-Lorenz equation. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • From hair products to perfume to our deodorant, everything gets adsorbed into our system. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • In the process it releases methane that was previously adsorbed to the coal surface and that may be recovered. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
 

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