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| Name: | permeability |
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| Description: | The ability of a substance to allow another substance to pass through it, especially the ability of a porous rock, sediment, or soil to transmit fluid through pores and cracks. Specific examples include the rate of diffusion of a fluid under pressure through soil, the rate at which gas diffuses through the surface of a balloon or airship, or the response of a medium to a magnetic field, expressed as the ratio of the magnetic flux density in the medium to the field strength. |
| Type: | Noun |
| Term is: | Variable | | Term has: | | |
