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- Permeant: The substance or species, ion, molecules permeating through the solid.
- Permeability: The degree of transmissibility of a solid, meaning how much penetrates in a specific time, dependent on the type of permeant, pressure, temperature, thickness of the solid and the area size.
- Semipermeability: Property of a material to be permeable only for some substances and not for some others.
- Permeation measurement: Method for the quantification of the permeability of a material for a specific substance.
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