Usually means: Dissolving solids by washing them.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. lixiviation: Merriam-Webster
  2. lixiviation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lixiviation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. lixiviation: Wordnik
  5. lixiviation: Wiktionary
  6. Lixiviation, lixiviation: Dictionary.com
  7. Lixiviation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Lixiviation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. lixiviation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Lixiviation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. lixiviation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. lixiviation: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  13. lixiviation: FreeDictionary.org
  14. lixiviation: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  15. lixiviation: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. lixiviation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. lixiviation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. lixiviation: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lixiviation)

▸ noun:  The process of lixiviating.

Similar:
lixivium, lixiviant, liquefication, leaching, eliquation, illiquation, liquification, insolubilization, liquidization, sluicing, more...

Opposite:
delixiviation, insolubilization, precipitation

Types:
leaching, more...

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Similar:
lixivium, lixiviant, liquefication, leaching, eliquation, illiquation, liquification, insolubilization, liquidization, sluicing, more...

Opposite:
delixiviation, insolubilization, precipitation

Types:
leaching, more...



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