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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. F.

lixiviation

Lixiviating; the process of separating a soluble substance from one that is insoluble, by washing with some solvent, as water; leaching.

Noun.

The operation or process of extracting alkaline salts from ashes by pouring water on them, the water passing through them imbibing the salts.

lixiviation ‎(countable and uncountable, plural lixiviations)