percolation
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"Ramanujan's motivation might have been very mathematical, but without his knowledge, he was also studying black holes, turbulence, percolation, all sorts of things."
From Science Daily ● Dec. 16, 2025
This may not seem relevant to fluid turbulence, but in earlier work, the team and other researchers in the field had evidence that the directed percolation transition had the same statistical properties as laminar-turbulent transitions.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 2024
This nanoscale percolation not only enhances charge generation efficiency but also significantly improves the stability of the polymer blend morphology, reducing the loss in device performance over time when exposed to solar illumination.
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
This use of the word filtering was misleading, as it was many times after in French, English, and American patent nomenclature, where it often meant percolation or something quite different from filtration.
From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
Vocabulary lists containing percolation
The Water Cycle - Introductory
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Earth Science - Middle School
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The Water Cycle - Middle School and High School
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