Mechanisms of water vapor absorption in
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Machin, John ;O'Donnell, Michael J. ;CoutchiΓ©, Pamela A.
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Article
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1982
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Vapor absorption is the mechanism by which specially adapted terrestrial arthropods expend energy to escape from conventional equilibria, dictated by the difference between water activity of the body fluids (a~w~ = 0.99) and the environment. vapor absorbers have an identifiable βcondens