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Descriptor English: Percolation
Descriptor Spanish: Percolación
Descriptor percolación
Scope note: Flujo de líquidos a través de un medio poroso.
Descriptor Portuguese: Percolação
Descriptor French: Percolation
Entry term(s): Leaching
Lixiviation
Tree number(s): SP4.606.806.560.644
SP4.606.806.945.750.207.599.613
Scope note: 1. Flow of liquids through a porous media. 2. Leaching: Physical-chemical process of washing rocks and soils by rainwater and irrigation, which causes the removal of nutrients such as potassium, calcium and nitrogen, making the soil poorer. Leaching is particularly important (and problematic) in soils lacking vegetation cover and / or with little mineral retention capacity. (Free translation from the original: Brasil. Ministério do Meio Ambiente, 2005)
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Related: Groundwater MeSH
Groundwater Pollution DeCS
Infiltration-Percolation Ditches DeCS
Land Application DeCS
Percolating Liquid DeCS
Porosity MeSH
Refuse Disposal MeSH
Septic Tanks DeCS
Water Cycle MeSH
DeCS ID: 25423
Unique ID: DDCS025423
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Percolation - Preferred
Concept UI FD00058311
Scope note 1. Flow of liquids through a porous media. 2. Leaching: Physical-chemical process of washing rocks and soils by rainwater and irrigation, which causes the removal of nutrients such as potassium, calcium and nitrogen, making the soil poorer. Leaching is particularly important (and problematic) in soils lacking vegetation cover and / or with little mineral retention capacity. (Free translation from the original: Brasil. Ministério do Meio Ambiente, 2005)
Preferred term Percolation
Entry term(s) Leaching
Lixiviation



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