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Fineness of texture is produced by extreme grinding and levigation.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

There is no reason for believing that the finer processes of powdering and levigation were known.

From Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 361-436 by Holmes, William Henry

Finally I discarded altogether the use of fresh white of egg, and had recourse to dry powdered albumen, prepared by drying in a steam oven and levigation in a mortar.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 by Various

The most usual method of levigation is by means of a flat table ABCD, Pl.

From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Lavoisier, Antoine

Some may be considered as purely mechanical, such as the determination of the weight and bulk of bodies, trituration, levigation, searching, washing, filtration, &c.

From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Lavoisier, Antoine