1. of, relating to, or obtained by lixiviation (the process of extracting soluble substances from a solid by percolating liquid through it)
Usage: technical; chemistry

Examples

• The lixivial process was used to extract salt from the mineral ore.
• Lixivial methods are common in industrial chemistry for separating soluble compounds.
• The researcher employed lixivial techniques to purify the sample.
• Lixivial extraction proved more efficient than traditional filtration methods.