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: --
In the growth experiment, ligand production would be indicated by enhanced metal leaching in the biotic component as compared to the abiotic control.
These species would be able to survive high salinity and germinate when the salinity of the sediments decreases through dilution or leaching of salts.
In either case the toxic or radioactive waste is trapped in the solid, preventing it from leaching into the local water table.
Leaching accumulation and release of nitrogen in decomposing forest litter.
N losses are henceforth considered to be equivalent to actual leaching and may also be termed 'emissions'.
The relevance of these results to actual leaching losses in the field is not known.
This was attributed to leaching losses on sandy soils with high rainfall.
Prediction of soil organic partition coefficients by a soil leaching column chromatographic method.