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Absorption
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Absorption
The total demand for all goods and services in an economy. One calculates the absorption by adding the value of all goods and services produced and consumed locally to that of all imports.


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The satellite's instruments will help explain how the lunar radiation environment may affect humans and measure radiation absorption with a plastic that is like human tissue.
Measuring radiation absorption as a function of frequency produces a spectrum that can be used to identify functional groups and compounds.
By covering a radiation sensitive detector with a wavelength-selective filter, the radiation absorption of a specific gas can be measured.
 
 
 
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