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superabsorbent

[ soo-per-ab-sawr-buhnt, -zawr- ]

adjective

  1. extremely or unusually absorbent:

    superabsorbent fibers.



noun

  1. a superabsorbent material.
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Other Words From

  • super·ab·sorben·cy noun
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Word History and Origins

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Example Sentences

It can also be processed to produce more valuable chemicals: these upcycled options include the shatter-resistant acrylic plexiglass, a superabsorbent polymer used in diapers and the food preservative potassium lactate—which Dorgan used to make gummy bears that he then ate.

Someone filled Conor Daly’s portable hot tub with Orbeez, superabsorbent polymers that resemble jellybeans and grow to 100 times their original size when submerged in water.

Colton Herta categorically denied any role in the first prank between drivers in the motorhome lot — the filling of Conor Daly’s portable hot tub with Orbeez, the superabsorbent polymers that grow to 100 times their original size when submerged in water.

The brown paper towels aren’t exactly superabsorbent.

But while it is also associated with the use of superabsorbent tampons, it can occur in anyone, including children.

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