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

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