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What does porewater mean?

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Noun
  1. (geology) The water that fills the pores between the grains of sediment etc.
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Electrical charge is then carried by ions in solution in the porewater.
Soil temperature in the top 2 cm was measured with a digital thermometer and probe and porewater salinity was measured with the paste method on a single sediment core.
Third, germination of papyrus from seed may have been hampered by residual saline porewater in littoral soils.
Kuesel K, Bloethe M, Schulz D, Reiche M, Drake HL Microbial reduction of iron and porewater biogeochemistry in acidic peatlands.
Sediment diatom assemblages and composition of porewater dissolved organic matter reflect recent eutrophication history of Lake Peipsi.
Consolidation settlement is decrease in voids volume as porewater is squeezed out of soil, occurs slowly according to permeability.

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