Water Absorption

Absorption of water-soluble vitamins.

The water-soluble vitamins vary widely in chemical structure and properties, so it is not surprising that the characteristics of absorption of individual members of the group also show differences. Water-soluble vitamins are absorbed mainly into the blood, some very freely (e.g. ascorbic acid), others (e.g. thiamine) only in limited amounts. Vitamin Biz has an apparently unique mode of absorpti...

Water Absorption of Elastomers By

Epithelial water absorption: osmosis or cotransport?

A paradigm lost? Not according to the studies of Duquette, Bissonnette, and Lapointe (1), which present a direct test of the recently advanced cotransport hypothesis of water absorption. The results of these studies argue, strongly, that the widely accepted notion that osmotic coupling is the single mechanism responsible for water transport across biological membranes, in general, and epithelia...

Water Absorption Behavior of Hemp Hurds Composites

In this paper, water sorption behavior of 28 days hardened composites based on hemp hurds and inorganic binder was studied. Two kinds of absorption tests on dried cube specimens in deionized water bath at laboratory temperature were performed. Short-term (after one hour water immersion) and long-term (up to 180 days) water absorption tests were carried out to study their durability. Short-term ...

Water dimer absorption of visible light

Laboratory measurements of water vapor absorption using cavity ring-down spectroscopy revealed a broad absorption at 405 nm with a quadratic dependence on water monomer concentration, a similar absorption with a linear component at 532 nm, and only linear absorption at 570 nm in the vicinity of water monomer peaks. D2O ab5 sorption is weaker and linear at 405 nm. Van’t Hoff plots constructed at...