lixiviationn.

1664 M. Mackaile Moffet-well 55 Now that Brimstone containeth salts fixed and volatile, is hence proven, that out of its dross, after the separation or consumption of its combustible Sulphur, the former is extracted by lixiviation.

1678 tr. M. Charas Royal Pharmacopœa 102 For more exactness you may dry the Sediment, burn and reduce it to ashes, and by Lixiviation [Fr. lixiviation], Filtration, Evaporation and Chrystallization extract the Fix'd-salt that remains behind.

1788 Trans. Soc. Arts 6 145 The Salt extracted from Barilla by lixiviation.

1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. iv. 142 The water of lixiviation..will be found to contain the saline and soluble animal or vegetable matters, if any exist in the soil.

1866 D. Livingstone 4 May in Last Jrnls. (1874) I. ii. 34 A good deal of salt is made by lixiviation of the soil.

1881 J. Davis Rise & Fall Confed. Govt. I. 478 The niter was obtained from lixiviation of nitrous earth.

1933 S. W. Cole Pract. Physiol. Chem. (ed. 9) viii. 195 By repeating this process of lixiviation the starch can be obtained quite pure.

1978 P. O'Brian Desolation Island (1996) i. 25 He proceeds by lixiviation with some particular chemicals and then by cupellation according to principles discovered by himself.

2002 W. R. Newman & L. M. Principe Alchemy tried in Fire vi. 276 These ‘Saline Liquors’ are liquids derived from their parent salts by a variety of practical processes, primarily distillation, deliquescence, lixiviation, and solution.