Porous vs Dispersivity - What's the difference?
porous | dispersivity |
Full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through.
(Of legislation) full of loopholes
(figuratively) With many gaps.
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, year=2011
, date=May 14
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, title=Sunderland 1 - 3 Wolverhampton
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an empirical property of a porous medium that determines the characteristic dispersion of the medium by relating the components of pore velocity to the dispersion coefficient
As an adjective porous
is full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through.As a noun dispersivity is
an empirical property of a porous medium that determines the characteristic dispersion of the medium by relating the components of pore velocity to the dispersion coefficient.porous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Sponges are porous so they can filter water while trapping food.
- Concrete is porous , so water will slowly filter through it.
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