- present participle of leach.
leaching
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As backup, she also built a parallel facility in Australia for an environmentally sensitive processing step, known as cracking and leaching, completed in 2024.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
The chemical is essential in the leaching process of copper, which involves extracting the metal from copper ore.
From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026
Nickel and cobalt processing are also seeing higher costs because sulfur is used in high-pressure acid leaching.
From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026
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
Dupont looks up, some gland within him leaching courage into his blood.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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
The salt patrol, vigilant for erosions or leachings, a select corps, was alert night and day to keep the saline wall intact.
From Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore
Fresh manure may be used—in fact it is better, because the plants receive the benefit of the leachings, which is pretty well spent in old manure.
From Making a Garden of Perennials by W. C. (William Constantine) Egan
Danger, from drainage of barns and barnyards, 137; from leachings from privies and cesspools, 138.
From Rural Hygiene by Henry N. (Henry Neely) Ogden
