liquate

American  

[lahy-kweyt] / ˈlaɪ kweɪt /

verb (used with object)

liquated, liquating

1. to heat (an alloy or mixture) sufficiently to melt the more fusible matter and thus to separate it from the rest, as in the refining of tin.

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verb (used without object)

liquated, liquating

1. to become separated by such a fusion (often followed byout ).

liquate British  

/ ˈlaɪkweɪt /

verb

1. to separate one component of (an alloy, impure metal, or ore) by heating so that the more fusible part melts

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Other Word Forms

• liquation
  noun

Etymology

Origin of liquate

1660–70; < Latin liquātus, past participle of liquāre to liquefy, melt. See liquid, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

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liquated

Average value of liquated lead per ton 79 ozs.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

The stibnite is liquated out at a low heat and drips from the upper to the lower pot.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

Five of these liquation cakes are put simultaneously into the furnace in which silver-lead is liquated from copper, they weigh almost fourteen centumpondia, and the "slags" made therefrom usually weigh quite a centumpondium.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

Average value of the liquated lead per ton 28 ozs.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

The silver in these liquation cakes would run about 24 ozs. per ton, in the liquated lead about 36 ozs. per ton, and in the liquation thorns 24 ozs. per ton.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius