percolate in the PONS Dictionary

percolate Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to percolate coffee
правя кафе с кафеварка

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Water then percolates down through the gravel which itself is the filtration material.
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The generation of leachate is caused principally by precipitation percolating through waste deposited in a landfill.
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Metals that have been leached from the oxidized ore are carried downward by percolating groundwater, and react with hypogene sulfides at the supergene-hypogene boundary.
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The waste water generated in these areas normally percolates in the soil or evaporates.
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The solution then percolates through the heap and leaches both the target and other minerals.
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Chalk geology is porous, and rain falling onto chalk hills percolate directly into the ground, where the chalk acts as an aquifer.
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The mercaptan oxidation reaction takes place as the feedstock percolates downward over the catalyst.
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More efficiency is generally ascribed to the action of percolating water, which takes up certain soluble materials and redeposits them in pores and cavities.
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Thus, percolating water stimulates weathering reactions and helps differentiate soil horizons.
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Surface streams, on meeting the limestone, percolated through cracks and weaknesses and started to dissolve the limestone to form caverns.
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