Leaching in example sentence

According to a recent British meta-analysis, ammonia emissions, nitrogen leaching, and nitrous-oxide emissions per unit of output were higher in organic systems than in conventional agriculture, as were land use and the potential for eutrophication – adverse ecosystem responses to the addition of fertilizers and wastes – and acidification.

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But it too is being threatened by the massive amount of water being drawn from the Athabasca, which feeds these wetlands, and also the incredible toxic burden of the largest toxic unlined impoundments on the planet, which are leaching in to the food chain for all the species downstream.

That degrades the armor over time, leaching away its calcium minerals.

Phone waste can also end up in huge dump sites, leaching toxic chemicals into the soil and water, mirroring the problems of the mines where the elements originated.

The distancing of his henchmen is so vividly and quietly a thing of manhood's measure in Spanish terms that it quivers in the air on the the mesa above the plains and the leaching of colour is a pure masterpiece of mood that takes some seconds to notice happening

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