impregnation

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It starts with a fast-growing undisclosed African hardwood which is heat-treated and then further processed, including with resin impregnation.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2026

The cooling ceramic exhibits super-hydrophilicity, enabling immediate droplet spreading and facilitating rapid impregnation of the droplets through its interconnected porous structure.

From Science Daily • Jan. 3, 2024

But she knew one thing, according to the lawsuit: The doctor, Morris Wortman, facilitated the artificial impregnation of her mother, though she and her family believed it had involved the sperm of a medical student.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2021

It’s a message at the core of The Handmaid’s Tale, the 1985 classic novel that imagines the institutionalisation of fertile women as “handmaids”, for impregnation by the elite.

From The Guardian • Feb. 13, 2019

Even where such synchronism does prevail, so that a cross impregnation is effected, the chances are very numerous against the establishment of a hybrid race.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir