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adj
Of or relating to lye or lixivium; of the quality of alkaline salts.
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adj
Impregnated with salts from wood ashes.
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noun
leachate
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verb
To separate (a substance) into soluble and insoluble components through percolation; to leach.
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History
Borrowed from a Medieval Latin lixīvio, lixīviātus, or formed from the root of lixīvium, lixīvia, from lixīvius (“made into lye”), from lixa (“water, lye, ashes”).
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