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Tiny doors in your skin you can neither lock nor truly shrink.
means The tiny openings in your skin through which sweat and oils escape, or, more broadly, any minute passage in a surface that lets liquids or gases pass through.
from From Latin 'porus,' borrowed from Greek 'poros,' meaning a passage, ford, or way through — the same root that gives us 'emporium' (a place reached by trading routes) and 'aporia' (literally 'no way through,' a state of being stuck). The Greeks imagined a 'poros' as a path across difficult ground; English narrowed it to the microscopic paths through skin and stone.
- count
- Roughly 20,000 pores on your face alone
- size myth
- Pores have no muscles, so they cannot close
- breathing
- Skin pores release sweat, not oxygen, despite the saying
- plant cousins
- Leaves have stomata, pores that exhale water vapor
- genetics
- Pore size is mostly inherited, not earned
yellowstone geysers — over 10,000 thermal features in wyoming with water erupting through porous silica deposits
dead sea minerals — evaporating water leaves mineral-clogged pores in rocks, lowest elevation at -1,410 feet
human skin stratum corneum — approximately 2 million pores per human body regulating sweat and sebum