Fortunately, Agricola usually carefully mentions other alkalis, such as the product from lixiviation of ashes, separately from his nitrum.
In either event, whether obtained from wool residues or from lixiviation of wood-ash, it would be an impure potash.
The lixiviation of the nitrous substances, and the use of wood ashes, or potash itself, will produce saltpetre.
The lixiviation is an important part of the process, however simple it may appear; as upon its accuracy depends the quantity of the product.
The lixiviation is continued as long as any strength remains in the earth.
Potash is obtained from wood-ashes, by lixiviation with water, and evaporation.
The Pollok process is a newer, and stated to be a cheaper mode of lixiviation by chlorine.
After a few days, the lixiviation is effected, and the lye is drawn off either by a syphon or by a plug-hole near the bottom of the cistern, and run into evaporating vessels.
The lixiviation is best performed in stone-built cisterns; those of wood, however strong at first, are soon decomposed, and need repairs.
A fresh quantity of water is then added, and drawn off after an interval of four hours; even a third and fourth lixiviation are had recourse to; but these weak liquors are reserved for lixiviating fresh rubbish.
The cloth which is laid over the matters under lixiviation prevents the water from making a hollow in these substances where it is poured on, through which it might escape without acting upon the whole mass.
This salt is extracted by lixiviation from the rubbish of old buildings, from the earth of cellars, stables, or barns, and in general of all inhabited places.
The previous calcination carries off from the matter about a third of its weight, and the lixiviation washes out half the remainder.
In the first place; a Fixed Alkali may be obtained by lixiviation from the ashes of all vegetable matters that contain an Acid, Earth, and Phlogiston, in due proportion.
It is separated by lixiviationand crystallization.
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 98 per cent.
Apparatus for the methodical lixiviation of black ash, &c.
A similar solution is also obtained by the lixiviation of the so-called nitre plantations.
By the methodical lixiviation of this kind of rubbish a solution of nitrogenous salts is formed similar to that obtained by the lixiviation of fertile soil.
This is avoided by pouring the fresh hot water destined for the lixiviation, not onto the fresh mass, but upon a mass which has already been subjected to a first lixiviation by weak solutions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lixiviation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
