INQUARTATION

Meaning of INQUARTATION in English

/in'kwawr tay"sheuhn/ , n.

(in assaying) the addition of silver to a gold-silver alloy in order to facilitate the parting of the gold by nitric acid.

[ 1880-85; perh. inquartation. See IN- 2 , QUARTER, -ATION ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

INQUARTATION — (n.) Quartation.
Английский словарь Webster
INQUARTATION — ( n. ) Quartation.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
INQUARTATION — noun quartation.
Webster English vocab
QUARTATION — (n.) The act, process, or result (in the process of parting) of alloying a button of nearly pure gold with …
Английский словарь Webster
QUARTATION — ( n. ) The act, process, or result (in the process of parting) of alloying a button of nearly pure …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
QUARTATION — noun the act, process, or result (in the process of parting) of alloying a button of nearly pure gold with …
Webster English vocab
ASSAYING — in chemical analysis, process of determining proportions of metal, particularly precious metal, in ores and metallurgical products. The most important …
Britannica English vocabulary

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