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lixiviate

[ lik-siv-ee-eyt ]

verb (used with object)

lixiviated, lixiviating.
  1. to treat with a solvent; leach.


lixiviate

/ ɪˈɪɪˌɪ /

verb

  1. tr chem a less common word for leach 1 lixiviate
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Derived Forms

  • ˌˈپDz, noun
  • ˈ, adjective
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Other Word Forms

  • ·i·tDz noun
  • ԴDzl·i·e adjective
  • non·i·tDz noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lixiviate1

First recorded in 1640–50; lixivi(um) + -ate 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lixiviate1

C17: from lixivium
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Example Sentences

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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.

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For though the tast of Tartar, for Example, seem to argue that it contains a Salt before it be burn’d, yet that Salt being very Acid is of a quite Differing Tast from the Lixiviate Salt of Calcin’d Tartar.

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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.

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Some Solutions hereafter to be mentioned, for the Solutions of Potashes, and other Lixiviate Salts. p.

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For being sollicitous to find out some ready wayes of discriminating the Tribes of Chymical Salts, I found that all those I thought fit to make Tryal of, would, if they were of a Lixiviate Nature, make with Sublimate dissolv'd in Fair Water an Orange Tawny Precipitate; whereas if they were of an Urinous Nature the Precipitate would be White and Milky.

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