What does lixiviate mean?
Lixiviate means To separate (a substance) into soluble and insoluble components through percolation; to leach..
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/lɪkˈsɪvieɪt/ · verb
To separate (a substance) into soluble and insoluble components through percolation; to leach..
[…]the Slaves are out in the Storm, doing their Owners’ Laundry, observing and reading each occurrence of Blood, Semen, Excrement, Saliva, Urine, Sweat, Road-Mud, dead Skin, and other such Data of Biography, whose pure form they practice Daily, before all is lixiviated ’neath Heaven.
but we cou'd not, by this way, discern the least acidity in our arsenical solution, but rather a manifest sign of an urinous or lixiviate quality
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Lixiviate means To separate (a substance) into soluble and insoluble components through percolation; to leach..
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[…]the Slaves are out in the Storm, doing their Owners’ Laundry, observing and reading each occurrence of Blood, Semen, Excrement, Saliva, Urine, Sweat, Road-Mud, dead Skin, and other such Data of Biography, whose pure form they practice Daily, before all is lixiviated ’neath Heaven.
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