Crossword-Solution: LIXIVIUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lixivium | n. | A solution of alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes; hence, any solution obtained by lixiviation. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| alkaline solution obtained by leaching wood ash with water | 1 answer |
| lye | 4 answers |
| Solution | 28 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAET
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greedy person
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Sentences with LIXIVIUM (5)
What their way is of dressing, or curing Sponges, I confess, I cannot learn; but the way of dressing _Spunk_, is, by boiling it a good while in a strong _Lixivium_, and then beating it very well; and the manner of dressing Leather is sufficiently known.
The base of each is a lixivium made from two parts of the ashes of burned bean-stalks and one of unslaked lime, mixed with water and strained.
The buttermilk, deprived of its sharp taste, was drunk with pleasure by men and animals, and had lost its laxative properties.' By means of lime-wash or lime-water, he has restored butter so 'far gone' that it could only have been recovered by melting; but any alkaline lixivium will answer the same purpose.
Many of these limestones are of such composition as to be acted on freely by the elements of the atmosphere, which, in the form of nitric acid, combine with the earthy and alkaline bases of calcareous rock, and give rise to the formation of nitrates with the liberation of carbonic acid; hence the disintegrated rubbish of the caves yields nitrate of potash after being treated with the ley of ashes and subsequent evaporation of the saline lixivium.
Lastly, of the _fungus_ emerging from the trunk of an old tree, (and indeed some others) is made touch-wood, artificially prepar’d in a _lixivium_ or lye, dried, and beaten flat, and then boil’d with salt-peter, to render it apter to kindle.