A sponge absorbs water.

The mycelium absorbs the oil.

OK. Now. If something absorbs the energy, the electron can travel.

All that green stuff actually naturally absorbs storm water, also helps cool our cities.

Andrea is a living air filter that absorbs toxic gasses from air, contaminated indoor air.

Shrinking ice sheets make the planet darker, so it absorbs more sunlight and becomes warmer.

So this is a cinder block, uncoated, and you can see that it's porous, it absorbs water.

And it deploys legs it looks almost like Star Wars when it lands, it absorbs the shock and starts walking.

It may get locked in an undesired state, because it changes color, absorbs more energy, and the system may get stuck.

Ozone, a molecule made up of three atoms of oxygen, forms a thin layer of the atmosphere that absorbs harmful ultraviolet radiation from the Sun.

Furthermore, it owns 11 of the 14 largest multinational corporations in this sector and absorbs about 80 per cent of the worldwide trade in electronics.

More energy is coming in than going out, until Earth warms up enough to again radiate to space as much energy as it absorbs from the Sun.

It is printing. You put that on, you warm it a little bit, the wax prints through so it absorbs into the paper, and you end up with the device that you want.

The vanishing Arctic sea ice also affects the atmosphere. Less ice reflects less sunlight, and more open ocean absorbs more heat, which is then released into the atmosphere, affecting wind and pressure patterns throughout the northern hemisphere.

Some have suggested placing a large object nearby to change its trajectory through mutual gravitational attraction. Another method is to use mirrors, light, or painted colors to change the way the asteroid absorbs heat, which could also shift its direction.

Thanks to them, despite the blighted economy of the  lost decade, Japanese income is still higher than it is in Europe. Moreover, unemployment is low compared to the Western world, because the unproductive distribution sector absorbs young people who cannot find better jobs.

Thanks to them, despite the blighted economy of the lost decade, Japanese income is still higher than it is in Europe. Moreover, unemployment is low compared to the Western world, because the unproductive distribution sector absorbs young people who cannot find better jobs.

Of course, the second quarter GDP data show the economy s immediate response to the hike. But no decision should be made until the third quarter results are released, providing a clearer picture of what will happen to Japan s economy after it absorbs the first rate increase.

The biggest problem is water pollution, with discharges into canals and rivers growing faster than treatment capacity. At the same time, India's growing population will make increasing demands on water supplies mainly for agriculture, which absorbs more than 80 of all the fresh water India consumes.

On the revenue side, the degree to which federal taxation absorbs shocks at the state level cannot be very large for the simple reason that the main source of federal revenues that does react to the business cycle, the federal income tax, accounts for less than 10 of GDP.

Another problem with the emphasis on aid (in addition to the near impossibility of accurately measuring the scale of the flows from all sources) is that the political effort to increase it absorbs attention that would be better spent on a more powerful instrument of economic development trade.

Set forth to them the similitude of the life of this world It is like the rain which we send down from the skies the earth's vegetation absorbs it, but soon it becomes dry stubble, which the winds do scatter it is (only) Allah who prevails over all things.

Set forth to them the similitude of the life of this world It is like the rain which we send down from the skies the earth's vegetation absorbs it, but soon it becomes dry stubble, which the winds do scatter it is (only) Allah who prevails over all things.

An ice free surface absorbs more warmth from the sun than one covered in snow or ice. In other words, our greenhouse gas emissions have, by causing enough warming to melt the arctic ice, created a feedback loop that will generate more warming, and melt more ice, even if we were to stop emitting all greenhouse gases tomorrow.

America absorbs Chinese imports, pays China in dollars, and China holds dollars, amassing 2.5 trillion in foreign exchange reserves, much of it held in US Treasury securities. To some observers, this represents a fundamental shift in the global balance of power, because China could bring the US to its knees by threatening to sell its dollars.

It neither emits nor absorbs light significantly, which is why astronomers failed to notice it for millennia, even though dark matter contributes five times as much to the total mass of the universe as normal matter. It was only in the late twentieth century that careful study of the motion of normal, visible matter revealed the gravitational influence of lots of otherwise invisible stuff.