percolation

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After 40 years of reflection and percolation, some of the answers to those questions are visible on the other side of town, at the sprawling blockbuster show “Melbourne Now,” which opens today at the N.G.V.

From New York Times

They are connected to one another in a way that would seem to lend itself very well to percolation theory, which is precisely geared toward modeling the connections among discrete nodes.

From Scientific American

“We have a little more time for the consideration of this, and the percolation of these proposals, to have broader consultation and dialogue,” said Steve Ricchetti, a top White House aide.

From Washington Post

Contamination at the site reached the aquifer through injection wells, unlined percolation ponds, pits where radioactive material from other states was dumped, and accidental spills.

From Washington Times

They abstracted the study of percolation in chemistry, which describes a fluid filtering through a material, such as oil seeping through porous rock or water filtering through ground coffee.

From Scientific American