Runoff vs Leaching - What's the difference?
runoff | leaching |
That portion of precipitation or irrigation on an area which does not infiltrate or evaporate, but instead is discharged from the area.
Dissolved chemicals, etc, included in such water.
A second or further round of an indecisive election, after other candidates (often all but the last two) have been eliminated,
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The process by which something is leached.
* 2012 , Brian Morse, Cold Regions Engineering 2012
Liquid that leaches.
* Popular Science
As nouns the difference between runoff and leaching
is that runoff is that portion of precipitation or irrigation on an area which does not infiltrate or evaporate, but instead is discharged from the area while leaching is the process by which something is leached.As a verb leaching is
present participle of lang=en.runoff
English
(wikipedia runoff)Alternative forms
* run-offNoun
- The runoff of nitrates is poisoning the lake.
- There will now be a runoff as neither front runner received more than 50% of the vote.
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Derived terms
* surface runoffleaching
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- The leachings were performed in a controlled atmosphere chamber in four different steps
- 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.