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What does porosity mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The state of being porous
  2. (countable) A measure of how porous a material is; the ratio of the volume of pores to the total volume
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Additions of oxygen, carbon dioxide, or nitrogen to argon gas will usually cause porosity or erosion of the electrode.
Soil structure, or the size and arrangement of particles, determines the porosity of the soil.
There are also very strong positive relations with effective porosity, microporosity, and total porosity.
Compaction in sands proceeds by eliminating porosity by mechanical and chemical processes, and then by pressure dissolution.
To eventually translocate, cells must navigate the meshwork, the porosity of which can be smaller than the largest cell dimensions.
Allegheny has pioneered the usage of pretreatments such as steam treating to clean and seal the porosity of powdered metal prior to coating.

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