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Sorbed

adjective

(of a substance) taken into and retained in another substance. Synonym: occluded. "Large volumes of occluded hydrogen in palladium"

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... took aboard a cargo, being, as they supposed, ord'nary breadfruit; and stood away east-by-south for the Horn, meaning to work up to Kingston, Jamaica. But this particular breadfruit was of a fattening natur', whether eaten or, as you may say, ab-sorbed into the system through a part of it getting down to the bilge and fermenting, and the gas of it working up through the vessel. Whereby, the breeze holding steady and no sail to trim for some days, the crew took it easy below, with naught to warn 'em, unless, maybe, 'twas a ...

— The Mayor of Troy • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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Words linked to "Sorbed" : combined, occluded