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Uncommon card · Science
Absorption, an Uncommon card
In physics, absorption of electromagnetic radiation is how matter takes up a photon's energy, and so transforms electromagnetic energy into internal energy of the absorber.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 54
- DEF
- 19
- Power
- 73
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 24,000
Power 73 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 15 % of WikiCards cards.
Absorption quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Absorption card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Absorption. Absorption 54 · Astronautics 51 · Award 46 · Caput mortuum 38 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Award. Award 33,000 · Absorption 24,000 · Bowstring 12,000 · .17 Mach IV 8,900 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- A notable effect of the absorption of electromagnetic radiation is attenuation of the radiation, attenuation is the gradual reduction of the intensity of light waves as they propagate through a medium.
- Although the absorption of waves does not usually depend on their intensity, in certain conditions the medium's transparency changes by a factor that varies as a function of wave intensity, and saturable absorption occurs.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Absorption article was read about 24,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 54 and blocks with 19: each hit it takes is cut by 8 %.
How to get Absorption
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Absorption (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jon Chui, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
