verb
- extracting soluble constituents from a solid material by percolating a liquid through it
Usage: technical; chemistry and metallurgy
Examples
- The mining company is lixiviating copper ore with sulfuric acid to extract the metal.
- Lixiviating the ash with water removes the soluble salts.
- The process of lixiviating soil samples helps identify nutrient content.
- Industrial facilities use lixiviating techniques to recover valuable minerals from waste materials.
- Lixiviating the ore with a chemical solution increases the yield of the desired compound.