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Definition: QUARTATION |
QUARTATIONNoun1. 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. |
Etymology: Quartation \Quar*ta"tion\, noun. [Latin expression quartus the fourth: compare to the French expression quartation. So called because usually enough silver is added to make the amount of gold in the alloyed button about one fourth.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | The separation of gold from silver by dissolving out the latter with nitric acid. It requires not less than three-fourths of silver in the alloy, whence the name, which is also applied to the alloying of gold with silver, if necessary, to prepare it for this method of parting.See:parting. (references) |
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Crosswords: QUARTATION |
| English words defined with "QUARTATION": Inquartation. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "QUARTATION": parting flask. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "QUARTATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | firdeling (quartering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kwartering (quartering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kvarttaus (quartering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | quartation (quartering), échantillonnage du minerai (quartering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Quartierung (quartering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | negyedelés (quartering, squaring), kvartálás, arány-meghatározás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | artationquay inquartação (quartering), amostragem do mineral (quartering). (various references) sfertuire. (various references) incuartación de minerales (quartering), cuarteo de minerales (quartering). (various references) kvartering (quartering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "QUARTATION" (pronounced 'Quar*ta"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-n-o-q-r-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: aquatint, quatrain. | |
-3 letters: arnatto, quartan, quintar, quittor, rainout. | |
-4 letters: anatto, antiar, anuria, aroint, attain, attorn, intort, nutria, outran, qintar, quaint, quanta, quarto, quinoa, quinta, ration, rattan, ratton, tantra, tartan, triton, truant, urania. | |
-5 letters: antra, aorta, atria, attar, intro, naira, nitro, noria, ottar, qanat, quant, quart, quint, quirt, quoin, quoit, quota, ratan, ratio, riant, riata. | |
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