The phrase "absorb a substantial amount" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the capacity to take in or retain a significant quantity of something, such as information, resources, or energy.
Example: "The sponge can absorb a substantial amount of water before it becomes saturated."
Alternatives: "take in a considerable amount" or "retain a significant quantity".
A widely reviewed 2001 study by researchers at Kansas State University established that, because the human body doesn't absorb a substantial amount of the cholesterol in egg yolks, eating an egg or two a day is fine.
Furthermore, Ni-Ti alloys absorb a substantial amount of hydrogen from acidic fluoride solutions, thereby causing hydrogen embrittlement of the alloys (Yokoyama et al. 2003a, 2004b, 2005a).
In comparison with carbon and glass fibres, natural fibres can readily absorb a substantial amount of moisture from the surrounding environment, leading to poor interfacial bond with polymer matrices.
The torus absorbs a substantial amount of flux from the central engine and re-radiates this energy in the infrared (IR), predominantly in the mid-infrared (MIR; 7.5 25 µm).
This finding has been linked with an attendant consolidation of the foam, the process that is capable of absorbing a substantial amount of kinetic energy carried by the debris particles.
And there is simply not enough gold in the world to absorb a substantial portion of central-bank reserves.
When estimating expression, these FP transcripts absorb a substantial fraction of the overall expression signal.
Assembled artefactual transcripts absorb a substantial proportion of the expression signal, whereas incorrect transcripts appearing in a reference set do not absorb much signal.
31, 43, 44 Because near-infrared is primarily absorbed by water and hemoglobin, a substantial amount of energy was absorbed in the superficial layers of skin, and only limited near-infrared energy could be delivered to deeper tissues.
IBM's Watson and Google's self-taught visual system, which learned to detect cats in images simply by examining millions of stills from YouTube videos (many of which, it turns out, feature cats), would both seem to register a substantial amount of phi because they absorb vast quantities of data.
That is a substantial amount.
