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• present participle of leach.

leaching

American  

[leech-ing] / ˈlitʃ ɪŋ /

noun

• leachings
  plural

1. the dissolution or removal of substances out of soil, ashes, or the like by a process of percolation.

2. an instance of such dissolution, or a substance removed in this way.

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leaching Scientific  

/ lē′chĭng /

1. The removal of soluble material from a substance, such as soil or rock, through the percolation of water. Organic matter is typically removed from a soil horizon and soluble metals or salts from a rock by leaching. Leaching differs from eluviation in that it affects soluble, not suspended, material and often results in the complete removal of the material from the soil or rock.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• non-leaching
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• leachings
  plural

Example Sentences

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leaching leachings

The chemical is essential in the leaching process of copper, which involves extracting the metal from copper ore.

From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026

Plastic cigarette filters are the world's most littered item, leaching toxic chemicals into the environment and breaking down into microplastics -- while doing very little for the smoker, the secretariat said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2025

That makes them significantly better at leaching copper from ore than conventional methods using acids, which often only capture up to half of the metal contained in the rock, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025

This unusual imbalance suggested that liquid water had once seeped through the rocks, effectively leaching lutetium out of them.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2025

His hair didn’t look quite so dark, as if the color was leaching out.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

They obtained a ton of pitchblende from the Austrian Government, began a long series of crushings, pulverizations, leachings, precipitations, crystallizations with apparatus at which a modern physicist would sneer.

From Time Magazine Archive

He leaches the soil removed, to recover the calcium nitrate, and then pours the leachings through plant ashes containing potassium carbonate, for the purpose of transforming the calcium nitrate into the potassium nitrate or saltpeter.

From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by F. H. (Franklin Hiram) King

The salt patrol, vigilant for erosions or leachings, a select corps, was alert night and day to keep the saline wall intact.

From Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore

And the arm of the Arctic Ocean into which it carries its loads of silt and leachings, and upon which it floats the fishermen's bottoms or the merchantmen's steamers, is called the White Sea.

From The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Lewis E. Jahns

Fresh manure may be used—in fact it is better, because the plants receive the benefit of the leachings, which is pretty well spent in old manure.

From Making a Garden of Perennials by W. C. (William Constantine) Egan