permeation

Example Sentences

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The permeation of air into the soil accelerates the release of not only carbon dioxide from organic matter but also other greenhouse gases like nitrous oxide.

From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2024

With these so-called legacy materials, methods to prevent or remedy leaching, permeation and other issues are well known, says environmental engineer Andrew Whelton of Purdue University.

From Scientific American • Aug. 16, 2022

The permeation through healthcare is particularly noticeable in three areas: cardiology, sleep medicine, and sports medicine.

From The Verge • Nov. 1, 2021

Let me attest, at the outset, to the hauntingly powerful—and, now, almost twenty-five years on, probably unreplicable—cultural permeation that the songs on Alanis Morissette’s third album, “Jagged Little Pill,” achieved after its release, in 1995.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 9, 2019

And prayer is the communion by which this permeation becomes possible.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason