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Definition of Lixiviate
1. a. Of or pertaining to lye or lixivium; of the quality of alkaline salts.
2. v. t. To subject to a washing process for the purpose of separating soluble material from that which is insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances.
Definition of Lixiviate
1. Verb. To separate (a substance) into soluble and insoluble components through percolation; to leach. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lixiviate
1. [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lixiviate
Literary usage of Lixiviate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The history of the French revolution, tr. with notes by F. Shoberl by Thomas Carlyle, Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers (1838)
"It drew up directions, a model of simplicity and clearness, to teach the citizens
how to lixiviate the mould of cellars. It also took into its pay a number ..."
2. The Emporium of Arts and Sciences by John Redman Coxe (1812)
"It may be also expediently used when lixiviate salt is employed with heat for
the most perfect purification of oils; for it will in that case give room for ..."
3. Transactions of the Society, Instituted at London, for the Encouragement of by Society of Arts (Great Britain, Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1801)
"It may be also expediently used, when lixiviate salt is employed with heat for
the most] perfect purification of oils; for it will in that case give room ..."
4. The Repertory of Patent Inventions: And Other Discoveries and Improvements (1803)
"The ultimate action of lixiviate salts on animal oils, ... The use of lixiviate
salts alone is not, however, the most expedient method that can be pursued ..."
5. Select Methods in Chemical Analysis. (Chiefly Inorganic). by William Crookes (1871)
"In manufacturing establishments it is frequently the practice to lixiviate the
ash with water at some definite temperature, considered to be about the ..."
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