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There is a smell of death about him now; no hospital deodorants or rubber gloves or absorbent pads can take it away.

Remove from oil and let cool on absorbent towels to remove excess grease and reserve.

Can they forget the absorbent powers of carpet tissues, and the horrors of next morning to non-smokers, perhaps to ladies?

It is a useful absorbent of liquid manure, and may be advantageously added to the dung-heap for that purpose.

They heard that one country was in special need of stretchers, a second absorbent cotton, a third hospital gauze.

Such fixtures must be constructed of non-absorbent materials.

Such a solution is an absorbent of carbon monoxide; it also absorbs ethylene and acetylene.