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percolation

[pur-kuh-ley-shuhn] / ˌpɜr kəˈleɪ ʃən /


NOUN
seepage
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And this best cup of coffee occurs at what is known as the directed percolation transition.

From Science Daily Jun. 3, 2024

However, building on their earlier work, the team showed that fluids move through a pipe in a non-equilibrium phase transition, known as directed percolation, at the transition point between laminar and turbulent flow.

From Science Daily Jun. 3, 2024

This miscibility allows for the formation of a nanoscale percolation network at the heterojunction interface, preventing the aggregation of Y6-PAs.

From Science Daily Apr. 25, 2024

Somewhere in between is a critical value, called the percolation threshold, at which the fluid begins to flow all the way across the network.

From Scientific American Sep. 25, 2023

Kelly, of Kansas City, was granted a United States patent on an urn coffee machine employing a coffee extractor in which the ground coffee was continually agitated before percolation by a vacuum process.

From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)




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