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Porosity

noun
1.
The property of being porous; being able to absorb fluids.  Synonym: porousness.






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"Porosity" Quotes from Famous Books



... ripening which are identical with those actually occurring in the cheese factory. Several different species of bacteria have been found which, when artificially used thus for ripening cheese, will give rise to the porosity and the abnormal swelling of the cheese already referred to (Fig. 24). Others produced bad tastes and flavours, and enough has been done in this line to demonstrate beyond peradventure that the abnormal ripening of cheese ...
— The Story Of Germ Life • H. W. Conn

... to tons depends on the specific gravity of the ore, its porosity, and moisture. The variability of ores throughout the mine in all these particulars renders any method of calculation simply an approximation in the end. The factors which must remain unknown necessarily ...
— Principles of Mining - Valuation, Organization and Administration • Herbert C. Hoover

... in England, where Dr. Dalton, a skillful examiner of atmospheric phenomena, estimates the annual deposit of dew to equal a depth of five inches, or about one-fifth of the rain-fall. Water thus deposited on the soil is absorbed more or less completely, in proportion to the porosity of the ground. ...
— Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health • George E. Waring

... porosity in the trappean formations, the appearances are in a great degree deceptive, for all amygdaloids are, as already explained, porous rocks, into the cells of which mineral matter such as silex, carbonate of lime, and other ingredients, have ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell



Words linked to "Porosity" :   solidity, porous, body, porousness, permeability, eubstance, consistency, sponginess, permeableness, consistence



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