liquate
verb (used with object)
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.
liquation
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a word derived from
liquate.
Example Sentences
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Average value of the exhausted liquation cakes per ton 12 ozs.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
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 Georgius Agricola
The liquation process is discussed in great detail in Book XI.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
In the exhausted liquation cakes there remain a third of a libra and a semi-uncia of silver.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
Average value of the liquation thorns per ton 18 ozs.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
