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porosity

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porosity [pə′räs·əd·ē]
(physics)
Property of a solid which contains many minute channels or open spaces.
The fraction as a percent of the total volume occupied by these channels or spaces; for example, in petroleum engineering the ratio (expressed in percent) of the void space in a rock to the bulk volume of that rock.


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It is well known that inclusions will induce porosity formation during the casting solidification process, as these inclusions constitute a free surface upon which the hydrogen atoms can nucleate and form a hydrogen molecule.
Key statement: The crumb rubber media are compressible which allows the porosity between rubber particles to decrease through the filter bed.
Step 1: facies analysis (including establishing the primary porosity and permeability distributions, and the "primary aquastratigraphy"--a term newly defined in this article); Step 2: petrographic analyses (paragenetic sequence, mapping amounts and spatial distribution of diagenetic phases); Step 3: geochemical analyses (isotopes, trace elements, fluid inclusions, etc.
 
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