Lixivial

Quick meaning: Lixivial is an adjective meaning (obsolete or historical) Of or derived from lye or wood ashes.

Meaning

(obsolete or historical) Of or derived from lye or wood ashes.

Example Sentences

But such may rest satisfied that those dextrous and conscientious Artificers the Chymists, can furnish us with a Lixival Salt of any Plant we want, made from the Cineres Clavellati or Pot-Ashes.

[…] we obtain'd, more than once, out of 16 ounces of salt-petre, 10 ounces of fix'd nitre, very lixivial in tast and operation, and of a pleasant greenish blue colour, deeper than salt of tartar will usually be brought to, by being, in a crucible, kept twenty times as long in a strong fire.

Word Forms

• lixival

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lixival, favillous, lustie, leavenous, lither, vitriolick.

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