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

See Examples For:

liquated

If this has not been done, the silver-lead alloy liquated from the cakes is frozen by the coldness of the passage, and does not run down into the receiving-pit.

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

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 Georgius Agricola

The stibnite is liquated out at a low heat and drips from the upper to the lower pot.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola

Five cakes are placed at the same time in the furnace in which argentiferous lead is liquated from copper, and from these are made lead which contains half an uncia of silver to the centumpondium.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola