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But the chemicals take a long time to break down and have lingered in the environment, particularly in landfill, where they can leach into waterways and then into the sea.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

When old records make it to a landfill, they’re not only likely to outlive the site, but can also leach plasticizers, a Keele University report found.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

Sulfuric acid is used to produce phosphate fertilizers, leach copper and other metals from rock, pulp wood, pickle steel, tan leather and vulcanize rubber.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026

They are encased and unlikely to leach into the soil.

From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2026

She held him like that, willing him to leach warmth from her, willing his body to learn from the rhythm of her heartbeat, the steadiness of her breath.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

Sometimes, the chemical “sauce” leaches out of plastic, a process that, research has shown, can be toxic.

From Slate ● May 28, 2025

Without the constant pressure of gravity on the skeletal system, calcium from bones leaches into the body, which besides weakening the bones themselves can lead astronauts to be at higher risk of developing kidney stones.

From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2024

"Then there are the pesticides for insects and fungicides for parasites. It is a monoculture which kills off biodiversity and leaches chemicals into our rivers."

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2023

If you live in a house built before 1980, it’s likely you have lead in your yard thanks to once-popular lead-based house paint, which leaches into the soil and drip irrigation lines.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2023

If that fog leaches out of the jungle, or the monkeys return.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

The material is then leached into a wine‑red liquid, filtered, evaporated and finally transformed into a fine white powder -- lithium.

From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026

A carbon water filter can also reduce potential exposure to chemicals and pesticides that may have leached into your water.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

The authors of the Communications Earth and Environment paper cite, for example, research showing hydrochloric acid emitted from solid rocket launches killing fish after it leached into nearby water.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2025

The research team demonstrated in a study published last year, that chemicals were leached from microplastics into human sweat.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2024

And she leached the walls of a brown shiny nastiness deposited by cooking fat and kerosene lamps.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

The chemical is essential in the leaching process of copper, which involves extracting the metal from copper ore.

From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026

Despite recycling efforts, most plastic ends up in landfills where it can take centuries to decompose, leaching out chemicals during that time, Deeney said.

From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026

That makes them significantly better at leaching copper from ore than conventional methods using acids, which often only capture up to half of the metal contained in the rock, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025

This unusual imbalance suggested that liquid water had once seeped through the rocks, effectively leaching lutetium out of them.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2025

Techniques were developed in eastern Australia for rendering abundant and starchy, but extremely poisonous, cycad seeds edible, by leaching out or fermenting the poison.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond