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Definition of Percolated
1. percolate [v] - See also: percolate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Percolated
Literary usage of Percolated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Agriculture in Some of Its Relations with Chemistry by Frank Humphreys Storer (1897)
"From May to September (inclusive) there percolated to depths of 1, 2 and 4 feet,
respectively, the following per cent of the rainfall, through drain-gauges ..."
2. Agriculture in Some of Its Relations with Chemistry by Frank Humphreys Storer (1897)
"From May to September (inclusive) there percolated to depths of 1, 2 and 4 feet,
respectively, the following per cent of the rainfall, through drain-gauges ..."
3. Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology by William Buckland (1841)
"The effect of this Clay must be to exclude much rain water that would have
percolated downwards into the Coal mines, had strata of porous Sand-stone formed ..."
4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1867)
"... rocks to have been percolated by solutions carrying the products of the
alteration of such minerals, it was suggested that the reduction to the metallic ..."
5. The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain by Archibald Geikie (1897)
"... which at atmospheric temperatures and pressures has slowly percolated from
the surface through the cellular lava, long after the latter had consolidated ..."
6. King's American Dispensatory by John King, Harvey Wickes Felter, John Uri Lloyd (1900)
"Form into a tincture by percolation, and after 10 fluid ounces have percolated
through, add water, a sufficient quantity, until 19 fluid ounces o£ tincture ..."
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