lixiviate
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of lixiviate
First recorded in 1640–50; lixivi(um) + -ate 1
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They lixiviate the soil and boil the water, which has filtered through a bunch of grass in a hole in the bottom of a pot, till all is evaporated and a mass of salt left.
From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by Waller, Horace
When the mass is charred to the point that water will not be colored by soluble organic matter, lixiviate with hot distilled water, filter, wash and ignite the residue in the platinum dish.
From Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. by Thomssen, E. G.
When the substance is in larger quantity, it may be lixiviated in a kettle of boiling water, and filtrated through paper supported by cloth in the wooden frame, Pl.
From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Lavoisier, Antoine
Churches, play-houses, coffeehouses, all alike, are destined to be mingled, and equalized, and blended into one common rubbish,—and, well sifted, and lixiviated, to crystallize into true, democratic, explosive, insurrectionary nitre.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
The weinstein of the old German metallurgists was often the material lixiviated from the incinerated tartar.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
They made great vats in the cave, in which they lixiviated the impregnated earth, and by wooden pipes conveyed it to a place where they boiled the water drawn from the vats.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 by Various
When most of the copper has been converted into the sulphate, the ore is lixiviated.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
It is obtained by lixiviating wood ashes, and evaporating the lye, and has been an important source of potassium compounds.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section P and Q by Project Gutenberg
A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
It continued in use as long as men were unacquainted with the art of lixiviating salt, or, in other words, as long as they had no vitriol manufactories.
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