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absorbent

  1. A material that extracts one or more substances from a fluid (gas or liquid) medium on contact, and which changes physically or chemically or both in the process. E.g. solid absorbent: calcium chloride; liquid absorbents: solutions of lithium chloride, lithium bromide, and ethylene glycols.


  2. The less volatile of the two working fluids in an absorption cooling device.


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