(of a substance) taken into and retained in another substance
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
sorbed
Occluded Sentence Examples
Hydrogen, as was shown by Graham, is capable of uniting with or being occluded by certain metals, notably with palladium (q.v.), into metal-like compounds.
Graham showed that a wire of palladium alloyed with from 24 to 25 parts of gold does not exhibit the remarkable retraction which, in pure palladium, attends its loss of occluded hydrogen.
Ea c h cordylus is a tentacle-like structure with an endodermal axis containing an axial cavity which may be continuous with the ring-canal, or may be partially occluded.
Such junctions can occur where an edge is partially occluded by another object.
Smaller peaks may indicate that the object is present but also occluded.