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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His account is very incomplete, for he describes only the bare liquation, and states that the copper is re-melted with lead and re-liquated until the silver is sufficiently abstracted.
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
Finally, to the right, in front, is the copper mould into which the copper-lead alloy is poured from the forehearth, in order that liquation cakes of equal weight may be made.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
The bar holds the exhausted liquation cakes opposite, lest they should fall down.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
On the first—as likewise on the other three days—the master begins at the fourth hour of the morning, and with his assistant chips off the stalactites from the exhausted liquation cakes.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
