Lixiviate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /lɪkˈsɪvieɪt/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Lixiviate is a verb meaning To separate (a substance) into soluble and insoluble components through percolation; to leach.
Meaning
To separate (a substance) into soluble and insoluble components through percolation; to leach.
More Meanings
- Of or relating to lye or lixivium; of the quality of alkaline salts.
- Impregnated with salts from wood ashes.
- leachate
Example Sentences
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
[…]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.
Word Forms
- lixiviates
- lixiviating
- lixiviated
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include eluate, exsolve, coevaporate, isolate, precipitate, solvolyze.
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