0 present participle of leach
1 When a chemical substance leaches or is leached from a material, especially soil, it is removed by the action of water passing through the material:
The lowest maize yield harvested in 1996/97 under sole maize was attributed to leaching and water logging due to excessive rainfall and lodging.
In both experiments, cumulative mean cation losses between treatments across all leachings were compared graphically.
In order to verify the relevance of these hypotheses, measurements of the leaching rates over short (days) and long (weeks) periods should be carried out.
Radiolarians were extracted in the laboratory by hydrofluoric acid leaching.
Data were summarized as mean cumulative cation losses from leaching columns of each treatment after each leaching event.
The use of saline drainage water for irrigation creates soil salinity due to the accumulation of soluble salts in the absence of adequate leaching.
In fields with low erosion rates, there is little increase in leaching.
Prediction of soil organic partition coefficients by a soil leaching column chromatographic method.
