NOUN
- the filtration of a liquid for extraction or purification
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the slow passage of a liquid through a filtering medium
the infiltration of seawater through the lava
the percolation of rainwater through the soil - the act of making coffee in a percolator
How To Use percolation In A Sentence
- The whole then became consolidated by the percolation of calcareous matter; and the cylindrical cavities left by the decaying of the wood, were thus also filled up with a hard pseudo-stalactical stone. Chapter XIX
- Water may enter the soil or bedrock simply through percolation through interconnected voids between particles under the force of gravity.
- Students use standard procedures to qualify saline and sodic soils, observe salt and sodium effects on water percolation, and conduct a bioassay of incrementally-degraded soils with plants of varying salt-tolerance.
- the percolation of rainwater through the soil
- The world of the book is the percolation into articulate consciousness, into graphemes and syntax, of the manifold silences, the teeming capillary life of nature.
- Possible analogy with material fracture and/or invasive percolation can also be suspected.
- To gas well of polluted compound formation, the percolation law of flow is already not conformity to the induced requirement of conventional interpretation way which is needed to modify.
- The factors affecting electrical properties and percolation threshold are discussed.
- A standard septic tank system with a soakaway is proposed for the disposal of sewerage, and its percolation area is about 30 metres from the open drain to the east.
- The percolation threshold of aspirin was obtained after a series of calculations using percolation theory.