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What does permeation mean?

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Noun
  1. The movement of a fluid through a porous or permeable solid.
  2. (medicine) The spreading of something (especially something malignant) through the body via blood vessels etc.
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Other methods of molecular weight determination include gel permeation chromatography, end-group analysis, and osmometry.
According to the simplest scenario, the blocking process can be viewed as being completely independent from permeation.
Inner walls not resistant to permeation when using an inert leak detection medium.
The facility is based on the continuous weighing of a permeation tube containing the substance under study.
This idea is supported by experiments that showed dye permeation through suberized walls of epidermal cells.
The rates at which biologically important molecules cross the cell membrane through permeation vary over an enormous range.

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