lixivial

comparative more lixivial · superlative most lixivial · alternative lixival

1. historicalobsoleteOf or derived from lye or wood ashes.

   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.

   1752, Henry Bracken, Farriery improv'd: or, A compleat treatise upon the art of farriery

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   […] 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.

   1679, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chymical Principles