Porousness: alternatives and connections

A saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds in Galatia. It is soft and porous, and was formerly used for cleansing the s…

A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface.

A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals…

A group of corals in which the coral is not porous; -- opposed to Perforata.

The act or process of separating mingled gases of unequal diffusibility by transmission through porous substances.

Open or spongy, as some porous bones.

The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremiti…

Having a spongy or porous structure; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones.

Burnt sugar; a brown or black porous substance obtained by heating sugar. It is soluble in water, and is used for coloring spirits, gr…

A black variety of diamond, found in Brazil, and used for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded fragments, rarely distinct…

A porous earthen pot used in India for cooling water, etc.

A shallow porous cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime).

An explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert, porous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust, etc. It is safe…

The passage of gases, vapors, or liquids thought membranes or porous media from within outward, in the phenomena of osmose; -- opposed…

Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid…

Having foramina; full of holes; porous.

One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous…

A porous earthen jar for cooling water by evaporation.