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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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.
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
Ores in which the copper is present as sulphate are directly lixiviated and treated with iron.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
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
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 decomposed ore is then placed in tanks and lixiviated.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
In Flanders, the yearly loss of the necessary matters in the soil is completely restored by covering the fields with ashes of wood or bones, which may, or may not, have been lixiviated.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George
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.
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
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