Example Sentences

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To address this, despite the name, metal-air batteries typically require additional equipment such as an oxygen permeation membrane to either purify oxygen or selectively use atmospheric oxygen.

From Science Daily • May 28, 2024

With these so-called legacy materials, methods to prevent or remedy leaching, permeation and other issues are well known, says environmental engineer Andrew Whelton of Purdue University.

From Scientific American • Aug. 16, 2022

The permeation through healthcare is particularly noticeable in three areas: cardiology, sleep medicine, and sports medicine.

From The Verge • Nov. 1, 2021

Biological cell membranes provide elegant examples of selective permeation in nature, while dialysis tubing used to remove metabolic wastes from blood is a more simplistic technological example.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

The permeation of Westernism is naturally most advanced in those parts of Islam which have been longest under Western political control.

From The New World of Islam by Stoddard, Lothrop