Quartation

Noun

Word Frequency: 0.0

Definitions

1.NounThe act, process, or result (in the process of parting) of alloying a button of nearly pure gold with enough silver to reduce the fineness so as to allow acids to attack and remove all metals except the gold.

Synonyms

parting aliquotation liquation barrel process aurification speltering trituration mercurification cazo process transmutation eliquation projection

Rhymes With

hortation sortation

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