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Permeation

noun
1.
The process of permeating or infusing something with a substance.  Synonyms: pervasion, suffusion.
2.
Mutual penetration; diffusion of each through the other.  Synonym: interpenetration.





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"Permeation" Quotes from Famous Books



... that many strata of limestone, chert, and other rocks which are now brittle, were pliant when bent into their present position. They may have owed their flexibility in part to the fluid matter which they contained in their minute pores, as before described, and in part to the permeation of sea-water ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell


Words linked to "Permeation" :   ammonification, pervasion, diffusion, penetration, impregnation, permeate, carbonation, saturation


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