Crossword-Solution: LEVIGATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Levigation | n. | The act or operation of levigating. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “LEVIGATION”
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| the act or operation of levigating | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything
flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it; as, to pour
water from a pail; to pour wine into a decanter; to pour oil upon the
waters; to pour out sand or dust.
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Sentences with LEVIGATION (5)
Part IV., =Accidents.=--Chapters XXXII., Boring Accidents--Methods of preventing them--Methods of remedying them.--XXXIII., Explosives and the use of the "Torpedo" Levigation.--XXXIV., Storing and Transport of Petroleum.--XXXV., General Advice--Prospecting, Management and carrying on of Petroleum Boring Operations.
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.
The trituration and levigation of powders, and the perennial abrasion and waste of the surface of solid bodies, occasion a disintegration of particles almost exceeding the powers of computation.
This compound, which is one of the most abundant of the ores of mercury, is a product of considerable importance in the arts, and some portions of it are sometimes sufficiently pure in colour to be used after mere levigation.
The particles of alum are not in close contact, and they have no freedom of motion unless they are dissolved in water, when they become invisible; the water by its chemical power destroys the mechanical aggregation of the solid alum far beyond any operation of levigation.