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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

As backup, she also built a parallel facility in Australia for an environmentally sensitive processing step, known as cracking and leaching, completed in 2024.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026

Despite recycling efforts, most plastic ends up in landfills where it can take centuries to decompose, leaching out chemicals during that time, Deeney said.

From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026

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

The pink snow drifts were going white again, the color leaching out of them as the world darkened.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

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 Jahns, Lewis E.

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 Egan, W. C. (William Constantine)

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 Moore, Ward

Danger, from drainage of barns and barnyards, 137; from leachings from privies and cesspools, 138.

From Rural Hygiene by Ogden, Henry N. (Henry Neely)