Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
liquation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Metallurgy) The process of separating a fusible substance from one less fusible, by means of a degree of heat sufficient to melt the one and not the other, as an alloy of copper and lead; liquation.
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- noun metallurgy The process of separating a
fusible substance from one less fusible, by means of a degree of heat sufficient tomelt the one and not the other, as an alloy ofcopper andlead ;liquation .
Etymologies
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Latin eliquatio, from eliquare to clarify, strain; e + liquare to make liquid, melt.
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