Oups I added an extra f : lixiviaction. So it was my phone that change it because it just change it a second tome. It is a french word but I imagine it could also exist in english build the same way. It is the extraction of soluble principale by washing. From latin “lixivius”. To leach. I found a wiktionary page for it :
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lixiviate#English
Sure, there are many great words regardless of popularity, but esoteric one are more likely to be new to me!
That one doesn’t turn up in my DDG search, could you elaborate?
Oups I added an extra f : lixiviaction. So it was my phone that change it because it just change it a second tome. It is a french word but I imagine it could also exist in english build the same way. It is the extraction of soluble principale by washing. From latin “lixivius”. To leach. I found a wiktionary page for it : https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lixiviate#English