liquate
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of liquate
1660–70; < Latin liquātus, past participle of liquāre to liquefy, melt. See liquid, -ate 1
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When the lead has been liquated from the copper, it weighs six centumpondia, in each centumpondium of which there is a quarter of a libra and almost a sicilicus of silver.
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
Weight of argentiferous lead liquated out 423.6 lbs.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
Weight of argentiferous lead liquated out 494.2 lbs.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
The extraction into the liquated lead would be about 80% of the silver.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
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