leachate
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From leach + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]leachate (countable and uncountable, plural leachates)
- (soil science) The liquid produced when water percolates through a permeable material.
- 1980, Grant E. Kimmel, Olin C. Braids, Leachate Plumes in Ground Water from Babylon and Islip Landfills, Long Island, New York, US Geological Survey, Professional Paper 1085, page 32,
- Probably the main reason that leachate enrichment was highest near the bottom of the aquifer beneath the landfill is that the heavier, leachate-rich water sinks by gravity as it moves out of the refuse, and not because it is displaced downward by freshwater from the surface.
- 1994, James M. Brannon, Tommy E. Myers, Barbara A. Tardy, Leachate Testing and Evaluation for Freshwater Sediments, US Army Corps of Engineers, Miscellaneous Paper D-94-1, page 23,
- Two aspects of leachate generation from CDFs[confined disposal facilities] are of particular concern, leachate contaminant concentrations and leachate flow.
- 1999, George Mulamoottil, Edward A. McBean, Frank Rovers (editors), Constructed Wetlands for the Treatment of Landfill Leachates, CRC Press (Lewis Publishers), page xiv,
- However, the development of this technology using constructed wetlands to treat landfill leachates has to be supplemented by investigations on the breakdown and pathways of the contaminants.
- 1980, Grant E. Kimmel, Olin C. Braids, Leachate Plumes in Ground Water from Babylon and Islip Landfills, Long Island, New York, US Geological Survey, Professional Paper 1085, page 32,
Translations
[edit]liquid produced when water percolates through a permeable material
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See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Leaching (chemistry) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Heap leaching on Wikipedia.Wikipedia