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What is a leachate?

What is a leachate? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The liquid produced when water percolates through any permeable material.
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The leachate was collected and then chemically converted to true saltpeter, potassium nitrate, by mixing it with a solution of potash.
The treatment of leachate and the safe disposal or even use of landfill gas are components of an environmentally sound waste management policy.
With the acidulation of the leachate with sulfuric acid, the vanadium is precipitated as sodium hexavanadate.
Many of these are soluble in water and become dissolved in any surplus moisture in the landfill site to produce a liquid mixture termed leachate.
The residual material no longer produces methane, and leachate is much reduced.
Devices called lysimeters are sometimes inserted into the ground to collect subsurface water, called leachate.

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