porosity
porosity
Definition
po·ros·ity (pō räs′ə tē, pə-)
porosity
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- reduce: This is applied to the wood before staining and reduces the porosity of the wood.
- increase: They have usually undergone weathering and erosion that has increased porosity.
- have: It also means that our hair has poor porosity.
- control: Indeed, it is not hard to make such materials porous: the problem comes in controlling the porosity.
Adjective modifier
- low: The key findings were: Low porosity must be achieved.
- high: Material of low mass per unit area and high surface porosity will tend not to reflect sound.
- secondary: Development of secondary porosity in feldspars from oil reservoir rocks.
- effective: The diffusional flow test methods assess the effective porosity of a filter membrane.
Modifies a noun
- development: Evaluation of wireline log data indicates high gas saturations and good porosity development within the gas bearing interval.
- test: They will expect you to have undertaken your own soil porosity test as evidence for your election.
- measurement: Table 1, results from all of the porosity measurements on each of the four samples.
- canopy: If you have just brought a new zero porosity canopy, can you pack it?
Noun used with modifier
- fracture: It is estimated that less than 5 % of the wells drilled into quartzite have encountered fracture porosity.
- soil: Due to the poor soil porosity in the north of the District this system is not usually suitable.
- %: The final product is very pure polycrystalline " artificial graphite " with about 20 % porosity.
- matrix: In basement reservoirs matrix porosity is effectively close to zero and most of the storage capacity and permeability is due to fractures.
- surface: Material of high mass per unit area and low surface porosity will tend to reflect airborne sound.
Preposition: in
- reservoir: This has major implications for trying to model the secondary growth or reduction of porosity in hydrocarbon reservoirs.
Preposition: of
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