Percolation
In chemistry and other physical sciences, percolation is a type of filtering.
An abstract mathematical model of percolation can be applied to other processes, which are then also called percolation, that share the mathematical description in common with the filtering process. For that abstract treatment, see percolation theory.
That treatment also has application in dynamical systems, which can change of state or phase above or below a critical threshold.
See also: self-organization self-organized criticality
In other processes and systems
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