Worthless Word for the Day

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the worthless word for the day is: lixiviate

[fr. L. lixivus, made into lye; fr. lix, ashes, lye]
1) to impregnate with lixivium or lye
2) to subject to a washing process for the purpose
of separating soluble material from that which is
insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of
extracting the alkaline substances

"Collect some charcoal ashes from the crucible
furnace and lixiviate them."
- Michael Faraday, Chemical Manipulation (1827)

"The great ocean lixiviates our earth."
- Chamber's Journal (1854)