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UK
/pˈɜːməbəl/
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[ US /ˈpɝˌmiəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɝˌmiəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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allowing fluids or gases to pass or diffuse through
rock that is permeable by water
permeable membranes
How To Use permeable In A Sentence
- Upon heating the plastisol coating to a temperature which is sufficient to cause fusion of resins contained therein, a highly permeable polymeric ply having the appearance of a smooth, continuous film is formed.
- • Healthy fats to keep their cell walls integral but permeable -- such as omega-3 fats, and phosphatidylserine and phosphatidyl choline, available from foods and supplements Alison Rose Levy: Fix Your Mood with Brain Food
- In an effort to keep pests off the parsnips we began cloaking the beds with Agrofabric, a translucent, permeable rowcover made of woven fiberglass.
- After 8-10 days slides were fixed for 15 min in periodate-lysine-paraformaldheyde and made permeable by Triton-X100 0. 05% for 30 min. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- That the flesh or soft parts are not wholly permeable to the rays is well shown in the skiagraph -- i.e., a "shadow picture" -- of a foot. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896
- This will render the topo impermeable, yet still allow you to write notes on it with a ballpoint pen.
- A nonpermeable patch containing 2 ml/kg body weight of Margosan-O@ was placed over small shaved areas on a group of albino rabbits. Chapter 15
- In dialysis a solution is passed over a semipermeable membrane, allowing solutes up to a certain size (but not larger molecules) to diffuse across the membrane to a second solution.
- A knot of walkers wanders up the trail to Weeping Rock, where springs emerge from the base of cliffs at the contact point between porous Navajo sandstone and impermeable Kayenta shale.
- The sea snake's skin is impermeable to water but they can extract 20% of their oxygen needs through their skin from oxygen dissolved in seawater.