imbibition

• Preservation is generally a higher-concern for nitrate and single-strip color films, due to their high decay rates; black and white films on safety bases and color films preserved on Technicolor imbibition prints tend to keep up much better, assuming proper handling and storage. —  xml's Blinklist.com
• Water imbibition rate wheat kernels affected kernel color, weather damage, technique threshing —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
• The long-continued secretion of a watery urine will sometimes cause the breaking down of a calculus, as the imbibition of the less dense fluid by the organic, spongelike framework of the calculus causes it to swell and thus lessens its cohesion. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
• Their only spiritual exercise is the automatic one of imbibition, the clergyman being the faithful Hermit-crab who is to be depended on every Sunday for at least a week's supply A physiologist would describe the organism resulting from such a progress as a case of "arrested development." —  Natural Law in the Spiritual World
• He points out how organic bodies are remarkable for their powers of imbibition, and he seeks to show that the cell is the form under which a body capable of imbibition must necessarily crystallise, and that the organism is an aggregate of such imbibition-crystals. —  Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

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