Crossword-Solution: QUARTATION
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| Quartation | n. | The 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; -- called also inquartation. Compare Parting. |
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| mixing one part gold with three parts silver prior to purifying it | 1 answer |
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To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and
rolling, with noise.
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Sentences with QUARTATION (3)
The operation by which the alloy is brought to this standard is termed _quartation_ or _inquartation_, and consists in fusing the alloy in a cupel with lead and the quantity of fine silver or fine gold necessary to bring it to the desired composition.
The sulphur and litharge, or _Pfannenschmied_, process was used to concentrate the gold in an alloy in order to make it amenable to "quartation," or parting with nitric acid.
This metal is removed either in the ‘dry way,’ by fusing the gold with sulphur or sulphide of antimony; or in the ‘wet way,’ by ‘quartation’ and ‘parting.’ At the Royal Mint, “when gold ingots contain a certain quantity of silver” (say 2% or 3%), “instead of leaving it, as formerly, to constitute a part of the standard alloy, it pays to extract it, and to substitute copper in its place.