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[ adjective ] able to absorb fluids
Examples "the partly porous walls of our digestive system" "compacting the soil to make it less porous" Used in print (Organic Gardening and Farming,...)A light , porous mulch applied now keeps the roots cool and the soil soft during these early days of growth . Three inches of porous material will do a good job of keeping weeds down and the soil moist and cool . (Raymond C. Binder et al., editors, Proceedings...)Experiments were made on an electric arc applying a porous graphite anode cooled by a transpiring gas ( Argon ) . Gas injection through a porous anode ( transpiration cooling ) not_only feeds_back the energy transferred to the anode by the above mentioned processes , but also modifies the conditions in the arc itself . The anode material was porous graphite . Related terms |
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