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English
Etymology
From im- + porous.
Adjective
imporous (not comparable)
- not porous; not having pores
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC:having its earthy and salinous parts so exactly resolved, that its body is left imporous, and not discreted by atomical terminations
1892, “Lucifer: A Theosophical Magazine”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):If magnetism were not an immaterial substance, then any practically imporous body intervening between the magnet and the attracted object would, to some extent at least, impede the passage of the magnetic current
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