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UK
/lˈiːtʃ/
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[ US /ˈɫitʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫitʃ/ ]
NOUN
- the process of leaching
VERB
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remove substances from by a percolating liquid
leach the soil - cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate
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permeate or penetrate gradually
the fertilizer leached into the ground
How To Use leach In A Sentence
- Humus being highly colloidal, has the ability to adsorb and retain for future plant use many of the ions such as calcium, magnesium, potassium, phosphates and ammonia which might be leached from the soil and lost in drainage.
- There is a great deal of controversy over the merits of bleached and unbleached flour.
- How much bleach and chemicals? Times, Sunday Times
- This nascent bleach can also react with primary or secondary amines to form longer lasting, antimicrobial chloramines.
- The water seal technology is used to solve the problem of the collection rate of the mother liquid in situ leach mining of the rare earth mineral.
- I could still detect the faint smell of bleach.
- She was forced to scrub floors with bleach. The Sun
- The cannon was placed in a large waterproof crate of fresh water to leach out the salts, which, if untreated, would have eventually corroded the metal.
- Photograph by Alexandre Bailhache Pleached hornbeam arches and chestnut pergolas create verdant alleys connecting one garden room to the next and provide shaded, secluded walks. Paradise Regained
- In the processes generally known as bioleaching, stress-hardy bacteria, which can get all their nutrient requirements from the air and the minerals to be leached, are typically employed to oxidise ores to a more soluble state.