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A fissure is a narrow and long crack or opening, usually in a rock face.
The adjective hermetic describes something that is set apart, isolated, or separate from the influence or interference of society at large.
An impenetrable barrier cannot be gotten through by any means; this word can refer to parts of a building such as walls and doors—or to a problem of some kind that cannot be solved.
If you are impervious to things, such as someone’s actions or words, you are not affected by them or do not notice them.
An infusion is the introduction or pouring of one thing into another—such as new ideas brought into a workplace or poured purple dye spreading throughout a glass of water.
The adjective interstitial pertains to a narrow opening or a crack between two things.
Someone or something that is invulnerable cannot be harmed in any way; hence, they or it is completely safe or secure.
When a substance permeates something, it enters into all parts of it.
If something, such as warmth, color, or liquid, suffuses a material, it gradually spreads through or covers it; if you are suffused with a feeling, you are full of that feeling.
When something is transfused to another thing, it is given, put, or imparted to it; for example, you can transfuse blood or a love of reading from one person to another.
Adj.
porous
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Context
A sponge is a porous or absorbent material because it can soak in liquid into itself. Its porous body, which has many holes, allows water to penetrate it. The sponge’s porous bodily material, filled with pores, allows liquid to pass through easily, and so is often used for cleaning purposes since it also retains water.
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What is an example of a porous material?
PoorUs When our city's dam was getting older it became porous, leaking so badly that the city was often flooded--poorus!
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Brittle, porous materials are prone to suddenly crumbling when they encounter high pressure or are soaked in liquids, an effect linked with the collapse of rockfill dams and the formation of sinkholes.
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Discover Magazine
The artificial bone, porous and coated with a thin layer of calcium phosphate, is implanted into the arm in place of the damaged bone. Within a few weeks, the remaining real bone attaches itself to the implant and grows through the porous scaffold, encasing the implant in living bone within [eighteen] months.
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The Economist
A porous substance “possesses the nature of a passage or way,” which means that it has “ways” or “holes” in it through which substances can pass.
Word Theater
SpongeBob Squarepants Absorbent and yellow and porous is he!
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