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Occluded

adjective
1.
Closed off.
2.
(of a substance) taken into and retained in another substance.  Synonym: sorbed.  "Large volumes of occluded hydrogen in palladium"



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... consists of what is known as marsh-gas, or light carburetted hydrogen. This occurs occluded or locked up in the pores of the coal, and often oozes out into the galleries of coal-mines, where it is known as firedamp (German dampf, vapour). It is disengaged wherever vegetable matter has fallen and has ...
— The Story of a Piece of Coal - What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes • Edward A. Martin


Words linked to "Occluded" :   combined, obstructed, occluded front, sorbed


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