percolation

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In later years linseed oil has been extracted from linseed meal by the aid of naphtha and percolation, the product of a very clear, quick drying oil, but lacking in its binding quality, no doubt caused by the naphtha dissolving the fatty matter only, leaving the glycerine and albumen in the meal All pigments of paint group according to their affinity to raw linseed oil into three classes.

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  1. The act of percolating; the act of straining or filtering; filtration; the act of passing through small interstices, as liquor through felt or a porous stone. Percolation or transmission (which is commonly called straining). Bacon, Nat, Hist., § 3.
  2. In pharmacy, the process of extracting the soluble parts of powdered substances by passing through them successive quantities of a solvent which yields a clear extract free from insoluble matters: used in the sense of displacement.

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  • And even this percolation is minimal on cropped land—plants, utilize it before it passes beyond the root zone. —  Analog January, 1971
  • Fr Benjamin shows the percolation pond inside coconut garden. —  India Together - The news in proportion.
  • Certainly, the deficits Reagan racked up by cutting taxes more than spending and the percolation of his philosophy into public opinion probably played at least some role in reducing the growth of federal spending during the Clinton presidency —  Top Stories - Google News
  • The question is how this happens. avalanches crackling depinning-transition dislocation dislocation-starvation experiments granular-media jamming micron-sized nano newsviews non-equilibrium percolation phase-transition pillars plasticity scaling simulation single-slip size-effect universality weakest-link CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • We discuss our findings in view of observations of deformation bursts in other materials, such as face-centred cubic and hexagonal metals. avalanches crackling depinning-transition dislocation dislocation-starvation experiments finite-size-scaling granular-media jamming micron-sized nano newsviews non-equilibrium nucleation percolation phase-transition pillars plasticity scaling simulation single-slip size-effect universality weakest-link CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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  1. from Latin percolatio(n-), a straining through, the act of filtering, from percolare, past participle percolatus, strain through, filter: see percolate.
 

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