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Leaching vs Extraction - What's the difference?

leaching | extraction |

As nouns the difference between leaching and extraction

is that leaching is the process by which something is leached while extraction is an act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.

As a verb leaching

is .

leaching

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process by which something is leached.
  • * 2012 , Brian Morse, Cold Regions Engineering 2012
    • The leachings were performed in a controlled atmosphere chamber in four different steps
  • Liquid that leaches.
  • * Popular Science
    • One set of plants was watered with distilled water, while to the other set was added in addition small amounts of leachings , containing only a trace of nitrogen, from a cultivated field.

    extraction

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
  • A person's origin or ancestry.
  • Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
  • * Milton
    • They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
  • (military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
  • (dentistry) A removal of a tooth from its socket.

    • Synonyms

    * descent, lineage