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Webster 1913 Edition

Eliquation

Elˊi-qua′tion

,
Noun.
[L.
eliquatio
, fr.
eliquare
to clarify, strain;
e
+
liquare
to make liquid, melt.]
(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.
Ure.

Webster 1828 Edition

Eliquation

ELIQUA'TION

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Noun.
[L. eliquo, to melt; e and liquo.]
In chimistry, the operation by which a more fusible substance is separated from one that is less so, by means of a degree of heat sufficient to melt the one and not the other; as an alloy of copper and lead.

Definition 2024

eliquation

eliquation

English

Noun

eliquation ‎(plural eliquations)

  1. (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.
    • 1904, Johannes Rudolf Wagner, Manual of Chemical Technology, page 183:
      Simultaneously with the desilvering, goes on the eliquation of the rich scum in the first, and afterwards in the second, eliquation pan.

Etymology

From Latin eliquatio, from eliquare ‎(“to clarify, strain”), from e + liquare ‎(“to make liquid, melt”).

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