The solution from which nitrum is produced is obtained from fresh water percolating through nitrous earth, in the same manner as lye is made from fresh water percolating through ashes of oak or hard oak.
Frisco rubbed his head and drew himself up, suspicion percolating through his muddled brain.
An' if yo're any wise you'll cure yoreself of th' habit of being out nights percolating around when you ought to be asleep.
It seems probable, therefore, that the amorphous silica of the skeletal parts of marine organisms has been dissolved by alkaline water percolating through the strata, and re-deposited as flint.
If the water percolating through or pervading a rock, dissolves a certain mineral and afterwards deposits it in cavities or fissures, amygdules, geodes, or veins are the result.
Water, after percolating slowly through the crevices of limestone, where it becomes charged with the carbonic acid gas and with dissolved carbonate of lime, may trickle from the roof of a cavern.
It follows from the important rôle thus performed by the percolating water that the process of decomposition will be relatively important in humid regions where the atmospheric precipitation is sufficient for the purpose.
Under the enormous pressures of the rocks deep below the earth’s surface, they are as permeable to the percolating waters as is a sponge at the surface.
Those limestones which slowly pass into solution in the percolating water do, however, quite generally indicate a localization of the solution along the joint channels (Fig.
In such cases the shell has been dissolved and the component particles removed by water percolating the rock.
On ocean rocks in dry climates the droppings of birds (guano) which contain much phosphate, percolating into the underlying limestones change them into a hard white or yellow phosphate rock (e.
Water from the brook percolating through this keeps the lower portion saturated.
There were numerous small holes and crevices, enlargements of seams and joints by percolating water at an early stage in the cave's history.
Jointing and pressure cleavage, however, gave rise to innumerable crevices in the limestone, through which percolating surface water found its way into all parts of the formations.
In the river bluff 2 miles above the Sheffield end of the railway bridge is a crevice or joint which has been widened to 10 feet at the outlet by water percolating from the top of the bluff.
If the process of change was then incomplete, it may have been continued after the sea retired, by the percolating waters derived from the rainfall of the region.
Besides the schistose belts, a wide zone of quartzite exposed in the bluffs at this locality has been crushed into angular fragments, and afterwards re-cemented by white quartz deposited from solution by percolating waters (Plate X).
Quartzite is sandstone in which the intergranular spaces have been filled with silica (quartz) brought in and deposited by percolating water subsequent to the accumulation of the sand.
Percolating water evaporating on the sides and roof of limestone caverns, leaves the walls incrusted with carbonate of lime in beautiful masses of crystals.
Soft wet clay, quicksands, or other strata having springs of waterpercolating through them, are serious obstacles in the way of expeditious tunnelling.
While surface wells draw upon the rainfall percolating in their immediate vicinity, deep wells are supplied by the rainfall from more remote districts.
Definition of "Ground-water Level" Water percolating through the soil passes downward by gravity until it reaches an impervious stratum.
The water percolating down through them, and dropping from the roofs of the caverns, is usually charged with carbonate of lime held in suspension by an excess of carbonic acid.
The percolating wort is allowed to flow off, by three or more small stopcocks round the circumference of the mash-tun, to insure the equal diffusion of the liquor.
Water percolating through the soil, and finding its way to great depths through fissures in the rocks, carries with it oxygen and various salts in solution.
The geological character of rocks, however, renders it extremely probable that these animals may have descended with the water, percolating through fissures from very near the surface of the ground.
The non-volatile substances, the salts, become constituents of the soil, pass into plants, or are carried away into the water percolatingthrough the ground.
A shred of saffron, or a little vanilla, is frequently added, whilst the percolating coffee-pot is generally employed.
The water, in percolating through the vegetable and mineral layers, acquires their temperature, and is chemically affected by their action, but it carries very little matter in mechanical suspension.
The explanation may be found in the fact that the waters of bitter lakes are usually rich in magnesium salts which, percolating through beds of limestone, would convert them into dolomite.
Drains ordinarily remove only excess of capillary water, an excess of percolating water in wet weather.
Many caverns were formed, some of them in early Pleistocene times, by water percolating from above and (Fig.
Pondering the pendant stalactites that had gleamed like onyx in the firelight, he pictured the water percolating drop by drop through the limestone crevices, dissolving the lime and forming the stalactites a drop at a time through the years.
Uplifted by contractions of the earth crust, it had been cut as the surrounding granite could not have been by the percolating rains and streams, flowing along the cracks of the uplift.
They were at the head of some former rock slide, and the stream simply disappeared, percolating underneath it to its destination, (wherever that might be).
There is no discoloration of the water during long wet spells, or other evidences that it becomes blended with common water percolating through the earth.
The Springs are formed by water percolating through a high slate bank or bluff, and which thus becoming impregnated with its mineral properties, is collected into basins or springs at the base of the rock.
Through this beautiful ceiling there is a percolating drip adding stalactites to the crystal-points and piling stalagmites on the crystal masses below, varying this with imitation cascades, mats of small flowers, and masses of pop-corn.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "percolating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
