Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mixtures of fluids, a separation by differences of specific gravity. The lightest rises to the top and the heaviest goes to the bottom.
- noun The act or operation of liquating or melting.
- noun The condition or capacity of being melted: as, a substance congealed beyond liquation.
- noun The separation of metals differing considerably in fusibility by subjecting them, when contained in an alloy or mixture, to a degree of heat sufficient to melt the most fusible only, which then flows away, or liquates, from the unmelted mass.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; also, the capacity of becoming liquid.
- noun (Metal.) The process of separating, by heat, an easily fusible metal from one less fusible; eliquation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun metallurgy The partial
melting of a mixture ofmetals orores in order to separatecomponents
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Examples
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After the introduction of gunpowder from China during the Mongol conquests in the 1200s and the independent development of large cannon in Europe, the growing demand for copper for the manufacture of bronze cannon in the fifteenth century was a stimulus for advances such as the "liquation" process, used in ores containing silver to separate it from copper.
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2009
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Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan, the funds — Appaloosa Management, Aurelius Capital Management, Elliott Management Corp. and Fortress Investment Group LLC — called for the court to reject the bankruptcy estate's proposed liquation plan.
Hedge Funds Owed $1 Billion Challenge Old GM's Liquidation Plan Eric Morath 2011
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This is hard to conceive, yet can I make good how even that may prey upon our bodies, and yet not consume us: for in this material world, there are bodies that persist invincible in the powerfulest flames; and though, by the action of fire, they fall into ignition and liquation, yet will they never suffer a destruction.
Religio Medici 2007
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This is hard to conceive; yet can I make good how even that may prey upon our bodies, and yet not consume us: for in this material World there are bodies that persist invincible in the powerfullest flames; and though by the action of fire they fall into ignition and liquation, yet will they never suffer a destruction.
Religio Medici 1605-1682 1923
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This is hard to conceive; yet can I make good how even that may prey upon our bodies, and yet not consume us: for in this material World there are bodies that persist invincible in the powerfullest flames; and though by the action of fire they fall into ignition and liquation, yet will they never suffer a destruction.
Paras 36-70 1909
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Sulphide of antimony is separated from the ore by liquation; this regulus is met with in commerce as "crude antimony."
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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The metal itself is easily fusible, and may be separated from its ores by liquation.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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This is hard to conceive, yet can I make good how even that may prey upon our bodies, and yet not consume us: for in this material world, there are bodies that persist invincible in the powerfulest flames; and though, by the action of fire, they fall into ignition and liquation, yet will they never suffer a destruction.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643
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