lixivial
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin lixivius, lixīvus, from lixa (“ashes, lye ashes, lye”). Compare French lixiviel.
Adjective
[edit]lixivial (comparative more lixivial, superlative most lixivial)
- (obsolete or historical) Of or derived from lye or wood ashes.
- 1679, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chymical Principles:
- […] we obtain'd, more than once, out of 16 ounces of salt-petre, 10 ounces of fix'd nitre, very lixivial in tast and operation, and of a pleasant greenish blue colour, deeper than salt of tartar will usually be brought to, by being, in a crucible, kept twenty times as long in a strong fire.
- 1752, Henry Bracken, Farriery improv'd: or, A compleat treatise upon the art of farriery[1]:
- But such may rest satisfied that those dextrous and conscientious Artificers the Chymists, can furnish us with a Lixival Salt of any Plant we want, made from the Cineres Clavellati or Pot-Ashes.