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Percolation
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Percolate
To cause to pass through fine interstices as a liquor to filter to strain
Percolator
One who or that which filters
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Sicker
To percolate trickle or ooze as water through a crack
Filtrate
To filter to defecate as liquid by straining or percolation
Leachy
Permitting liquids to pass by percolation not capable of retaining water porous pervious said of gravelly or sandy soils and the like
Lysimeter
An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil
Slime
a size that they settle very slowly in water and through a bed which water does not readily percolate. Such particles must be leached by agitation (Chamber's Science and Technology Dictionary) See also National Mineral Development Corpn.
Support
v. Tunnicliffe & Hampson, 1908 AC 27. The right to support does not extend to support by underground percolating waters; abstracting these so as to let down the surface is damnum absque injuria: see Acton v. Burnell,
Water and watercourse
whether above or below ground. A distinction must be drawn, however, in the case of water which merely percolates through the soil: see Chasemore v. Richards, (1859) 7 HLC 349; Bradford Corporation v. Pickles, 1895 AC 587;
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