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Leaching vs. Extraction — What's the Difference?

Leaching vs. Extraction — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Leaching and Extraction

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Leaching

To remove soluble or other constituents from by the action of a percolating liquid
Heavy rains that leached the soil of minerals.

Extraction

The act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.

Leaching

To remove from a substance by the action of a percolating liquid
Acids in groundwater that leach calcium out of the bedrock.

Extraction

Something obtained by extracting; an extract.

Leaching

To empty; drain
"a world leached of pleasure, voided of meaning" (Marilynne Robinson).
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Extraction

Origin; lineage
Of Spanish extraction.

Leaching

To be dissolved or passed out by a percolating liquid.

Extraction

An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.

Leaching

The act or process of leaching.

Extraction

A person's origin or ancestry.

Leaching

A porous, perforated, or sievelike vessel that holds material to be leached.

Extraction

Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.

Leaching

The substance through which a liquid is leached.

Extraction

(military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.

Leaching

Present participle of leach

Extraction

(dentistry) A removal of a tooth from its socket.

Leaching

The process by which something is leached.

Extraction

The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture.

Leaching

Liquid that leaches.

Extraction

Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.

Leaching

The process of leaching

Extraction

That which is extracted; extract; essence.
They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

Extraction

The process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means

Extraction

Properties attributable to your ancestry;
He comes from good origins

Extraction

The act of pulling out (as a tooth);
The dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to the extraction

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