leachings
- plural of leaching.
Example Sentences
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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
Wells are too frequently insufficiently protected from surface leachings, and consequently may contain all kinds of organisms found in the surface soil.
From Outlines of dairy bacteriology A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by Hastings, Edwin George
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)
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 King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram)
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
