Depletion

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Depletion may refer to:

• Depletion (accounting), an accounting concept that may be relating to:
  • Oil depletion, the declining of oil supply
  • Overdrafting, extracting groundwater beyond the equilibrium yield of an aquifer
  • Ozone depletion, a decline in the total amount of ozone in Earth's stratosphere
  • Resource depletion, the exhaustion of raw materials within a region

Physics

• Depletion force, an effective force in molecular and colloidal systems
• Depletion region, a concept of semiconductor physics
• Depletion width, a concept of semiconductor physics
• Grain boundary depletion, a mechanism of corrosion