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What does percolation mean?

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  1. The seepage or filtration of a liquid through a porous substance.
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Most recharge to the Edwards aquifer results from the percolation of streamflow loss and the infiltration of precipitation through porous parts of the recharge zone.
Typically, if a soil type has sufficient percolation to support a septic tank system it will be compatible with pervious concrete.
For another example, consider the process of percolation, where a fluid trickles through the mazelike passages of a porous medium.
Important to all these initiatives is to allow space for community formation and the percolation of new ideas.
The deposit must be permeable to permit percolation of the mineral solutions.
Melt and percolation through the weak firn layer bring most of the freeboard volume to the melting point.

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