Leeching

Southern Cross University finding bioreactors filled with woodchips are successfully preventing some pesticides from leeching into the environment.

Women and children are paid the least; men who are involved with the extraction of metals and acid-leeching are paid more.

Lesnar asks how long Heyman has been leeching off him.

There is skulduggery in leeching: when I ask Carl if there is any corporate spying, he won’t answer, except to say: “We don’t need to.

As the series progresses, the school becomes more eccentric with the return of the demented, Hawaii-obsessed Principal Kuno and the placement of the power-leeching alternating child/adult Hinako Ninomiya as Ranma's English teacher.

However, bloodletting and leeching were common unvalidated interventions used until the 19th century, as many diseases were incorrectly thought to be due to an excess of blood, according to Hippocratic medicine.

Reducing the amount of pollutants that reach a watershed can be achieved through the protection of its forest cover, reducing the amount of erosion leeching into a watershed.

The hypothesis in question being that acidosis would lead to leeching of calcium storages in bones to neutralize pH levels (also known as acid-ash hypothesis).