Joel Salatin

God doesn't just miraculously and physically intervene in the whole process, so if I just go and drop a bunch of chemicals and herbicides that leach into the groundwater, I can pray all day to keep my child healthy, but if the herbicides gone into the groundwater come up my well, my child's going to drink that water.

American Author

Alex Shoumatoff

The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is broken down by soil bacteria into nitrate, a toxic and highly soluble chemical that can leach into groundwater or get washed into lakes, creating oxygenless dead zones.

American Writer

Kenneth Fisher

Environmentalists should like fracking for its relative cleanliness. But they don't. They have made a bugaboo out of the chemicals in fracking fluids, which supposedly can leach into groundwater sources. I'm convinced they're dead wrong. Ultimately, good technology with a cost advantage will win out over paranoia.

American Businessman

Chuck Norris

When we drink a cup of coffee or spoon heated chicken noodle soup or chili out of a Styrofoam cup, we are also taking in small doses of chemicals that leach from the container. Heat activates this transfer, as does oil, acids and alcohol.

American Actor

Alex Tabarrok

Patents are like fertilizer. Applied wisely and sparingly, they can increase growth. But if you apply too many chemicals, or make patents too strong, then you can leach the land, making growth more difficult.

Canadian Economist

Britt Ekland

I used to smoke cigarettes, ten a day, but gave up when I was 28. Now my vice is several cups of coffee a day, which isn't great if you're prone to weak bones as I am, as caffeine can leach calcium.

Swedish Actress

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I found my Saatva mattress when I was searching for a biodegradable and organic mattress that wouldn't leach chemicals because, believe it or not, I don't like that!

American Actress

Use 'leach' when discussing environmental issues where substances move with water.

Environmental Context

'Leach' often implies a process that happens without human action.

Passive Process

'Leach' usually suggests a loss of something desirable or necessary.

Negative Connotation

In scientific contexts, 'leach' refers to substances extracted for analysis.

Scientific Research

Don't confuse 'leach' with 'leech.' A 'leech' is a bloodsucking worm.

Confusion with Leech

'Leach' is also used metaphorically to describe a gradual loss.

Metaphorical Use

Describing something as leaching away suggests a slow process, not a sudden one.

No Immediate Effect

The term is often used in waste management, relating to septic fields and systems.

Waste Management

'Leach' in engineering relates to systems preventing environmental contamination.

Technical Term

 it's the gyre of plastic in the supermarket. I'd go to the supermarket and all of my food is packaged in plastic. All of my beverages are packaged in plastic, even at the health food market. I'm also concerned about the plastic in the refrigerator, and I'm concerned about the plastic and the toxins that leach from plastic

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 water electrolytes are minerals from your blood relying on ultra pure water as drinking water is gonna leach your body of all its precious minerals and that's gonna make you really sick and then you're gonna die I don't know if they want you to drink the water right from the unit so one thing about filming

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 where their decomposition releases methane gas, while their dyes and plastics leach into the soil and groundwater. Some companies are working on solutions here, from using organic cotton to recycling and reusing denim. You can also help reduce the environmental impact of your favorite pants

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 of a normal years worth of radiation exposure on earth calcium will leach from your bones which will lose nearly ten percent of their mass before you even get to Mars there is no test that can tell you whether or not the notion of being sixty million kilometers away from the planet on which

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 remove toxic blood from the body we just apply the leach to the local part of body which is affected to take out the blood impurities the method is quite natural and zero percent of harm is there but not necessarily for the leech blood impurities are said to be as dangerous

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 When heated, the phthalates leach out of the plastic into the food. We're ingesting them, we're absorbing them, and we're breathing them. TIM For reasons not entirely known, once inside the body, phthalates seem to inhibit

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 Other acidic foods, like citrus and tomatoes, can worsen irritation of the esophagus when they leach out with stomach acid. Carbonated beverages can similarly bubble up in the stomach, forcing open the valve.

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 um chill because we had a bunch a flock horse trained to adopt these horses with the help of two professional trainers Jerry Jones and Lanny leach who are professionals and they knew exactly what

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 joint seizure at one of his book signings and goes for a stroll through Central Park so the reason what you've seen so much leach is because I want him

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 chemical complexes in it phthalates chill aids bisphenol this cause cancer these leach into food they don't biodegrade but still we using whole lot