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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The liquation cakes are raised from the ground with the crane, and placed on the copper plates of the furnaces.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
Then, again, from another two and a half centumpondia of copper "bottoms," together with eleven centumpondia of lead, four liquation cakes are made.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
To this is added such an amount of de-silverized lead or of litharge, that a liquation cake made from it contains in all two and three-quarters centumpondia of lead.
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
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
