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Definition of Lixiviations
1. lixiviation [n] - See also: lixiviation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lixiviations
Literary usage of Lixiviations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition by Edward Henry Knight (1880)
"The liquors from the different lixiviations are all collected in one receptacle,
and hydrochloric acid added, which precipitates sulphur and expels ..."
2. Handbook of Metallurgy by Carl Schnabel (1905)
"In the following lixiviations the ore is left under water for 8 to 10 hours,
there being usually 5 to 6 lixiviations, but sometimes even more. ..."
3. A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid by Georg Lunge (1880)
"... but also for six or seven oxidations and lixiviations of the waste; they will
prefer casting the waste once for all upon a heap outside and allowing it ..."
4. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1802)
"... three or four lixiviations, and afterwards alternately to lixi- viations, ...
the the lixiviations and baths of the bleaching fluid, and (till pre-1),° ..."
5. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1846)
"... and lixiviations, whereby a solution of sulphate «f copper is obtained, from
which the copper raaj be precipitated in a retta ..."
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