The phrase "absorb the element" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to science, education, or metaphorical discussions about understanding or integrating information.
Example: "In chemistry class, we learned how plants absorb the element nitrogen from the soil to support their growth."
Alternatives: "take in the element" or "incorporate the element".
After discovering that nitrogen is essential to plants and animals, he disproved the belief that plants absorb the element from the atmosphere and proved that plants derive carbon from atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, (born Feb. 2, 1802, Paris, Fr. died May 12 , 1887 Paris) French agricultural chemist who helped identify the basic scheme of the biological nitrogen cycle when he demonstrated that plants do not absorb the element from air but from the soil in the form of nitrates.
February 2, 1802 Paris, France May 12 , 1887Paris, France Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, (born Feb. 2, 1802, Paris, Fr. died May 12 , 1887 Paris), French agricultural chemist who helped identify the basic scheme of the biological nitrogen cycle when he demonstrated that plants do not absorb the element from air but from the soil in the form of nitrates.
Researchers usually look at teeth, which absorb the element when an individual is very young and whose strontium ratios do not change after about 3 or 4 years of age.
Most scientists presumed mercury deposited from the atmosphere came either from raindrops that had absorbed the element from the air or via "dry deposition," in which the vaporized atoms stick to or chemically react with an exposed surface, says Peter Weiss-Penzias, an atmospheric chemist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
He absorbed the elements of popular storytelling, and created his own charged rhetoric of emotions — the climaxes extending to almost unbearable lengths, the faces turned upward as the camera moves rapidly or gravely toward someone who's taking something in.
Instead of trying to absorb the tyrannical element back into the populist arena of politics (as republicans desire), we have disempowered the tyrant.
Perhaps more than the teacups or perfume flacons, the garments eerily conjure lives lost that clear April night, so much so that when the Academy Award-winning designer Deborah L. Scott prepared to create costumes for James Cameron's blockbuster 1997 film "Titanic," she covered her office walls with photographs of the Titanic's passengers to absorb the sartorial elements that enliven character.
These material boundary layers absorb the fluid-mobile elements, resulting in no relative enrichment of elements, which characterizes the arc magmas, for the model melt (Figure 3).
"Style," she once said, "gets absorbed really fast by culture, basically by absorbing the formal elements or the structure and then subverting the content".
Plants absorb these elements from the soil solution using root system.
