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Definition of Lixivial
1. a. Impregnated with, or consisting of, alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes; impregnated with a salt or salts like a lixivium.
Definition of Lixivial
1. Adjective. Impregnated with, or consisting of, alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes; impregnated with a salt or salts like a lixivium. ¹
2. Adjective. Having the qualities of alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes. ¹
3. Adjective. Of the colour of lye; resembling lye. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lixivial
1. lixivium [adj] - See also: lixivium
Medical Definition of Lixivial
1.
1. Impregnated with, or consisting of, alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes; impregnated with a salt or salts like a lixivium. (Boyle)
2. Of the colour of lye; resembling lye.
3. Having the qualities of alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lixivial
Literary usage of Lixivial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Philosophical Transactions and Collections, to the End of the Year 1700 by Royal Society (Great Britain), John Lowthorp, Henry Jones, John Eames, John Martyn (1716)
"Nitre is Formed, as is commonly known, into long Cylindrical Shoots, a* alfo all
lixivial Salts, for the moft part; ..."
2. The Art of Making Common Salt, as Now Practised in Most Parts of the World by William Brownrigg (1748)
"AND that the alcaline principle of common falt hath a very great affinity to the
lixivial falt of vegetables is plain and evident, fince it is of a fixed ..."
3. The Works of George Berkeley ...: Including His Posthumous Works; with by George Berkeley (1901)
"8), and to have pre-existed in the vegetable ; whereas the lixivial fixed salts,
... But, although fixed or lixivial salts may not contain the original ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1799)
"The different sorts of lixivial fluxes and vitreous salts, combined with other
salts, and with the original calcareous substances, gave rise to new earths ..."
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