- present participle of leach.
leaching
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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
Audience trust is leaching away fast and Brits are increasingly refusing to pay up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 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
And was his conscience not needling him, leaching some of the sweetness from his victory?
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
They obtained a ton of pitchblende from the Austrian Government, began a long series of crushings, pulverizations, leachings, precipitations, crystallizations with apparatus at which a modern physicist would sneer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wells are too frequently insufficiently protected from surface leachings, and consequently may contain all kinds of organisms found in the surface soil.
From Outlines of dairy bacteriology A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by Edwin George Hastings
Danger, from drainage of barns and barnyards, 137; from leachings from privies and cesspools, 138.
From Rural Hygiene by Henry N. (Henry Neely) Ogden
He leaches the soil removed, to recover the calcium nitrate, and then pours the leachings through plant ashes containing potassium carbonate, for the purpose of transforming the calcium nitrate into the potassium nitrate or saltpeter.
From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by F. H. (Franklin Hiram) King
And the arm of the Arctic Ocean into which it carries its loads of silt and leachings, and upon which it floats the fishermen's bottoms or the merchantmen's steamers, is called the White Sea.
From The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Lewis E. Jahns
