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Percolation

noun

The slow passage of a liquid through a filtering medium. Synonym: infiltration. "The infiltration of seawater through the lava"

The act of making coffee in a percolator.

The filtration of a liquid for extraction or purification.

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"Percolation" Quotes from Famous Books

... or thin Mash, the Body of it lies in a more loose Condition, that will easier and sooner admit of a quicker and more true Passage of the after- ladings of the several Bowls or Jets of hot water, which must run thorough it before the Brewing is ended; by which free percolation the water has ready access to all the parts of the broken Malt, so that the Brewer is capacitated to Brew quicker or slower, and to make more Ale or small Beer; If more Ale, then hot Boiling water must be laded over to slow that one Bowl must run almost off before another is put ...

— The London and Country Brewer • Anonymous

... certain favourable localities and under particular conditions; that it must be destroyed by processes of denudation, and obliterated by processes of metamorphosis. Beds of rock of any thickness, crammed full of organic remains, may yet, either by the percolation of water through them, or by the influence of subterranean heat, lose all trace of these remains, and present the appearance of beds of rock formed under conditions in which living forms were absent. Such metamorphic rocks occur in formations of all ages; and, in various cases, there are ...

— Lectures and Essays • Thomas Henry Huxley

Words linked to "Percolation" : cooking, filtration, preparation, percolate, cookery