liquation
- a word derived from liquate.
Example Sentences
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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
They then carry the cakes to the furnace, and put the stalactites upon the heap of liquation thorns.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
They are all re-introduced into the liquation circuit, and thereby are created other bye-products of the same kind ad infinitum.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
These "thorns" are apparently fairly rich, four unciae to the centumpondium being equivalent to about 97 ozs. per ton, and they are only added to low-grade liquation material.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
The theoretical considerations involved in liquation have not been satisfactorily determined.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
