Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The operation or process of extracting alkaline salts from ashes by percolation of water; the process of leaching.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Lixiviating; the process of separating a soluble substance from one that is insoluble, by washing with some solvent, as water; leaching.
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- noun The process of
lixiviating .
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Examples
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The other and more scientific methods of extracting the precious metal from its matrices, such as lixiviation or leaching, by means of solvents
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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The object of calcining or roasting certain ores before treatment is to dissipate the sulphur or sulphides of arsenic, antimony, lead, etc., which are inimical to treatment, whether by ordinary mercuric amalgamation or lixiviation.
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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After the oxidation is finished, the mass is taken from the furnace and cooled; the bichromate is obtained by lixiviation, treated with sulphuric acid and crystallized.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 Various
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If, instead of chromate or bichromate of potash or soda, chromic acid is sought, the mass after lixiviation is treated with sulphuric acid, and the chromic acid is obtained directly without any intermediate steps.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 Various
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The mass after lixiviation, being treated with a solution of sulphate or carbonate of potash or soda, will yield chromate of potash or soda, and by the employment of sulphuric acid, the corresponding bichromates.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 Various
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Much also depends on the proportion of gold to the ton of rock under treatment, as the most scientific and perfect processes of lixiviation hitherto adopted will not pay, even when all other conditions are favourable, if the amount of gold is much under half an ounce to the ton and even then will leave but a very small profit.
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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The Pollok process is a newer, and stated to be a cheaper mode of lixiviation by chlorine.
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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The most scientific and perfect mode of gold extraction (when the conditions are favourable) is lixiviation by means of chlorine, potassium cyanide, or other aurous solvent, for by this means as much as
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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To begin with, they are roasted to get rid of the sulphur, arsenic, etc., which would interfere with the amalgamation or lixiviation, and then either ground to impalpable fineness in one of the many triturating pans with mercury, or treated by chlorine or potassium cyanide.
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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He employed a series of cylinders, arranged vertically, in which the wood was subjected to a methodical system of lixiviation.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 Various
ruzuzu commented on the word lixiviation
"When plants are burned, the inorganic constituents remain behind in the ashes, and it is by the lixiviation or leaching of these ashes that potash was first obtained, a process with which the Greeks and Romans were acquainted, although they were unable clearly to distinguish potash from soda, calling them both by the same name (νιτρον, nitrum)."
-- from the Century Dictionary definition for potash.
June 1, 2011