Of liquids

Usage examples of leaching.

He had been with Mwynwen frequently, either in his own chambers or her house, resting and leaching out of his body the subliminal aches and slight sickness that extended exposure to iron caused .

The insidious distortions of drake-dreams and the rip currents of primal chaos left a toll of leaching damage.

Weariness compounded the incessant chill, hazing the mind toward dozing sleep and leaching away better judgment.

Not with teeth or claws, but by the much slower poison of leaching your innate free claim to existence.

We clambered to the service road and dropped down into the woods to examine the leaching field that, from the beginning, had formed an unsightly bump in the lawn just beyond the deck.

She had never felt this way before, as if she were wrapped in a weightless cocoon that pulled at her anxieties, leaching them away.

The ground was probably saturated with it, relatively speaking, and even now, a thousand years later, it was still leaching by various slow-dispersal routes into the lake, where it worked its way up the food chain to maximum concentration in the bodies of fish, and the mouths of the people who ate them.

To guard against loss of nitrogen by leaching, therefore, we should aim to keep rich land occupied by some crop, during the winter and early spring, and the earlier the crop is sown in the autumn or late summer, the better, so that the roots will the more completely fill the ground and take up all the available nitrogen within their reach.

It unquestionably prevents the loss of considerable nitric acid from leaching during the winter and early spring.

Thus it comes about that the water which to a great extent divides the rocks into the state of soil, which is continually wearing away the material on the surface, or leaching it out through the springs, is also at work in restoring the layer from beneath.

The pesticide was leaching into the water and poisoning the food chain, and the fish the ospreys were eating were destroying their eggs.

As if in riposte, a pack of coralskippers isolated and surrounded a lone gunship, leaching it of its shields, then battering it with projectiles, kindling a deadly inferno that quickly engulfed the ship.

The third was rangier, with long hair and a beard that even in the leaching moonlight Duffy knew must be coppery red.

Fumes, oil, and bacteria from motor-boats and human waste leaching into the water create new challenges that were never posed by bugs and plankton.

I do not understand the current frenzy, since point-source discharges from the floodplain's seventeen small towns produce in one calendar year twelve times the amount of chemically contaminated stormwater runoff, groundwater leaching, and coliform discharge into surface waters than the combined discharge of all farms in the floodplain for the past decade.