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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 January 2013
We reanalyze a selection of the XMM-Newton RGS (Reflection Grating Spectrometer) data of two classical novae; V4743 Sgr and V2491 Cyg. The high resolution nova spectra in the X-ray wavelengths show existence of absorption features (e.g., blue shifted). Our main aim is to model the absorption components detected in the high resolution spectra independently from the assumed continuum model. We assume that there is complex absorption of interstellar, photospheric, and of collisionally and/or photoionized gas origin in the moving material along the line of sight from a nova wind or ejecta. In addition to deriving the absorption properties, we obtain CNO abundances of elements in the ejecta/nova wind.