- 1. 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. Source: opted
- 2. 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. Source: webster
- 3. The act, process, or result (in the process of parting) ofalloying a button of nearly pure gold with enough silver to reducethe fineness so as to allow acids to attack and remove all metalsexcept the gold; -- called also inquartation. Compare Parting. Source: adambom
- 4. 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. Source: ecdict
Home / Dictionary / quartation
quartation
Thesaurus links
Related headwords in VividLex — dictionary ↔ thesaurus bridge for exploration and SEO depth.
From the definitions
goldpartingprocessacidsactallowattackbuttoncalledcompareenoughfinenessinquartationnearlypureremoveresultsilveralloyingexceptmetalsreduce
Word family
Open full thesaurus page for quartation · Language as a Lens