lixiviated

"lixiviated" (washed with water) to form an alkali solution.

Find Me A Cure 2009

These ashes are collected, mixed with lime, lixiviated, and the resulting lye boiled down.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 Various

Leaving the church you will observe, on ascending, a large embankment of lixiviated earth thrown out by the miners more than thirty years ago, the print of wagon wheels and the tracks of oxen, as distinctly defined as though they were made but yesterday; and continuing on for

Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, during the Year 1844 By a Visiter Alexander Clark Bullitt

They made great vats in the cave, in which they lixiviated the impregnated earth, and by wooden pipes conveyed it to a place where they boiled the water drawn from the vats.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Various

An excellent manure for the last is wood-ashes, whether lixiviated or not, especially the latter, since the tuber of the potato contains a great deal of potash.

The Young Housewife's Counsellor and Friend: Containing Directions in Every Department of Housekeeping. Including the Duties of Wife and Mother 1875

It is true, that for the new salt-work near the battery of Araya, the seawater is received into pits, as in the salt marshes of the south of France; but in the island of Margareta, near Pampatar, salt is manufactured by employing only fresh water, with which the muriatiferous clay has first been lixiviated.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

The earth already lixiviated is never carried away here, as it is from time to time in the island of Margareta; nor have wells been dug in the muriatiferous clay, with the view of finding strata richer in muriate of soda.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

It is true, that for the new salt-work near the battery of Araya, the seawater is received into pits, as in the salt marshes of the south of France; but in the island of Margareta, near Pampatar, salt is manufactured by employing only fresh water, with which the muriatiferous clay has first been lixiviated.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

The earth already lixiviated is never carried away here, as it is from time to time in the island of Margareta; nor have wells been dug in the muriatiferous clay, with the view of finding strata richer in muriate of soda.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

Suppofi ng the former to be originally the refult of putrefaction, yet, after the earth has been lixiviated, and all the vegetable alkali has been carried off by water, how is it impregnated afrefh, merely by expofure to the fun and air; and where does it obtain this inexhauitible fupply both of the alkali and its combining acid?

A journey through Spain in the years 1786 and 1787 1792

Galligu was produced during the third stage, when the black ash (the product after heating salt cake, coal and limestone to high temperature in a revolver) was agitated with water (or lixiviated as it was known in the alkali trade).

Galligu: An environmental legacy of the Leblanc alkali industry, 1814-1920 2024