lixiviate

They lixiviate the soil and boil the water, which has filtered through a bunch of grass in a hole in the bottom of a pot, till all is evaporated and a mass of salt left.

From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by Waller, Horace

When the mass is charred to the point that water will not be colored by soluble organic matter, lixiviate with hot distilled water, filter, wash and ignite the residue in the platinum dish.

From Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. by Thomssen, E. G.

When most of the copper has been converted into the sulphate, the ore is lixiviated.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various

In Flanders, the yearly loss of the necessary matters in the soil is completely restored by covering the fields with ashes of wood or bones, which may, or may not, have been lixiviated.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George

The weinstein of the old German metallurgists was often the material lixiviated from the incinerated tartar.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

They made great vats in the cave, in which they lixiviated the impregnated earth, and by wooden pipes conveyed it to a place where they boiled the water drawn from the vats.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 by Various

This earth is lixiviated with wood-ashes, which allows the nitre to take a crystalline form.

From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

It continued in use as long as men were unacquainted with the art of lixiviating salt, or, in other words, as long as they had no vitriol manufactories.

From Forty Centuries of Ink or, a chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink. by Carvalho, David Nunes

It is obtained by lixiviating wood ashes, and evaporating the lye, and has been an important source of potassium compounds.

From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section P and Q by Project Gutenberg

A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah