LEACHING AND ITS APPLICATION

Leaching is concerned with the extraction of a soluble constituent

from a solid by means of a solvent.
The process may be used either for the production of a
concentrated solution
of a valuable solid material, or in order to remove an insoluble
solid, such as a pigment, from a soluble material with which it is
contaminated.
The method used for the extraction is determined by the
proportion of soluble constituent present, its distribution
throughout the solid, the nature of the solid and the particle size.