leaching
noun
the dissolution or removal of substances out of soil, ashes, or the like by a process of percolation.
leachings
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pluralof leaching.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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
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
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
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
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 Edwin George Hastings
