levigation

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noun The act or operation of grinding or rubbing a solid substance to a fine impalpable powder.

Latin levigatio a smoothing: compare French lévigation.

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Finally I discarded altogether the use of fresh white of egg, and had recourse to dry powdered albumen, prepared by drying in a steam oven and levigation in a mortar.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 Various
In this state it was called _Giallolino di fornace_, and was introduced as a pigment for artists, under the erroneous conception that vitrification gives permanence to colours, when in truth it only increases the difficulty of levigation, and injures their texture for working.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
It is a sulphuret of mercury, which previous to levigation is called Cinnabar; and is found native in quicksilver mines, as well as produced artificially.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
_Fineness of texture_ is produced by extreme grinding and levigation.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
_Chocolate Lead_, or Marrone Red, is a pigment prepared by calcining oxide of lead with about a third of copper oxide, and reducing the compound to a uniform tint by levigation.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field