They are characterized by being dry most of the year and limited leaching.

The leaching of lead from plates varies according to food.

He must be available to retreat on defense, to absorb the leaching of a fast break.

You do not really need to worry about the leaching of chemicals from the plastics.

It will prevent the leaching of toxic material into our river."

Both conditions led to increased leaching of nutrients from the cinders.

The removal of Al from some phases but not others is known as "selective leaching".

I fear that rain might cause leaching of the asbestos into the ground or make it airborne.

When the ground water is used at required leaching factor, the salts in the soil would not build up.

Waste can be transmitted to groundwater through the leaching of pollutants.

Many cities are now adding chemicals to drinking water to reduce leaching of lead from the pipes.

Soils at higher elevations experience more leaching, due to increased rainfall.

This low rate of uranium leaching suggests that the lava is resisting its environment.

Water is central to the solution, precipitation and leaching of minerals from the soil profile.

An important process for example is the leaching of sugar from sugar beets with hot water.

Annabelle gasped, and for a full moment, she stared at him unblinkingly, her face leaching of color.

The lower cost of bacterial leaching in this case outweighs the time it takes to extract the metal.

Areas made of sod undergo greater leaching than seeded turf plots.

Dicamba is mobile in most soils and significant leaching is possible.

Peat often stains the water yellow or brown due to the leaching of tannins.

It is notable in the field of underground and heap leaching of metals.

Selective leaching can be the pre-final stage of depletion gilding.

Silver is commonly extracted from ore by smelting or chemical leaching.

This positive fact probably contributes strongly alkaline environment heap leaching of pollutants.

The fuel casks are thus covered during transit to avoid all contact with people and any leaching effect caused by rain.

Fear seemed to leach the heat right out of her.

All color and sound had been leached out of him.

Part of the concern is over lead, which can leach into drinking water.

Many fear that it will leach into our water supply.

But all the meaning had leached out of it for him.

All the strength seemed to have leached out of her.

But I feared they would eventually leach into the ground water and make their way to our well.

The cold in his bones was leaching out into the rest of him.

Large amounts of fresh water will leach out the salt.

With time and use the lead leaches out of the glaze into the food.

That means the color can leach out over time - especially during a shampoo.

Now, as the light leached back into the world, he saw the door open at the head of the steps and a figure appear.

They do not dissolve in the soil and then leach into the ground water.

"We must be close to whatever is leaching power out of them.

The scent seemed to leach all oxygen from the air.

Then came the cooling, time leaching away the weight of each other.

Falling night leached the last of the light from my cell.

The light was entirely leached from the sky by now.

Many but not all of the crystal pieces leached lead.

Elizabeth had been leaching power from him at a dangerous rate.

The fire had leached the color out of everything and it looked now like a black-and-white photograph.

Little is left to be leached out into the root zone.

His magic will be leached from him and made yours.

The man's body lay on the floor, leaching black fluid.

All color and sound had been leached out of him.

But all the meaning had leached out of it for him.

All the strength seemed to have leached out of her.

The cold in his bones was leaching out into the rest of him.

Large amounts of fresh water will leach out the salt.

With time and use the lead leaches out of the glaze into the food.

That means the color can leach out over time - especially during a shampoo.

Little is left to be leached out into the root zone.

That seemed to have been leached out of him.

In spite of these coverings, the drug may leach out.

We'll leach out the bitterness and grind them up to add to the meat.

"They leach out and get into the ground water.

"Some people claim all life began as chemicals leached out of rock by rain."

Unlike boiling, nutrients are not leached out into the water.

When you heat plastics, chemicals leach out of the bottle.

The sun leached out through the cracks between, making shadows where before there had been none.

His voice was stiffly polite and so cold she felt all the warmth leach out of her body.

The colors leached out of the world, and her head filled with a sharp ringing.

When he leached out to pick it up his hand went right through it.

The fats were leached out of the corpse and the skin peeled away.

The meat for dinner had been soaking in water to leach out the salts.

Salt would not have been leached out of the soil and gathered in the seas.

Lead also leaches out of old pipes and contaminates drinking water.

The snow was leached out in places, exposing the dirt underneath.