NTR: porewater

[kaiiam]

The use case is pore water extracted from sediment from a marine system. I believe this is different than the existing term groundwater with def:

Underground water which is located in pore spaces found in rock or unconsolidated deposits such as soil, clay, or gravel.

Groundwater also has the axiom located in some aquifer aquifer in turn has the axiom composed primarily of some (gravel or silt or mud or clay or soil or rock and has quality some porous). Which I think is different then the new requested usecase of porewater which is extracted from marine sediment.

First pass at a definition for a a class like porewater or sedimentary porewater` or similar:

Water which resides within the interstitial spaces between grains of sediment.

def xref: https://www.wordnik.com/words/porewater

Maybe we also want an axiom like located in some sediment?

[pbuttigieg]

Thanks @kaiiam

I believe this is different than the existing term groundwater

Yes.

a class like porewater or sedimentary porewater`

We will need a porewater superclass for waters in the interstices of all porous materials. Working with your definition, we could have:

Liquid water which is present in the interstitial spaces of a porous or granular material.

'liquid water' and located_in some (material and (has_quality some porous or has_quality some granular))

A pattern to generate classes like "porewater of sediment" would then be the most efficient way to deal with the subclasses.

The general form of the pattern-driven definition would be

Porewater which fills the interstices of [material]

porewater and located_in some [material]

Woudl you be generating a PR?

[pbuttigieg]

Part_of may be better than located_in