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the quiet superpower of taking something in until it becomes part of you
means The process of soaking something up — a liquid, a substance, energy, or even information — so thoroughly that it becomes part of the thing taking it in.
from From Latin 'absorbere,' to swallow up or devour, built from 'ab-' (away) plus 'sorbere' (to suck, to slurp down). That same 'sorbere' gives us 'absorb' and is a cousin of words about sipping and gulping — so at its root, absorption is just a very dignified way of describing a thorough swallow.
- black holes
- absorb light so completely nothing escapes them
- plant trick
- roots absorb water against gravity, no pump needed
- vitamin d
- skin absorbs sunlight and manufactures it directly
- flow state
- deep absorption can erase your sense of time
- sponge math
- some absorb 25 times their own weight
beer lambert law — describes how light absorption by a material depends on its properties and thickness, derived by pierre bouguer and johann lambert in the 18th century
small intestine villi — finger-like projections in the human small intestine that absorb ~95% of digested nutrients into the bloodstream
activated charcoal — porous carbon material used in emergency rooms to absorb toxins and poisons from overdose patients