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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesquartación
Pronunciation / Transliteration: kwaɾtaˈsjon
"La quartación facilita la separación del oro y la plata."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
The metallurgical process of alloying an impure gold sample with silver in a proportion of three parts silver to one part gold, allowing nitric acid to dissolve the silver and separate the gold.
"The assayer performed quartation to ensure the gold bullion was properly refined." - 2
An obsolete or historical method in assaying used to prepare gold for parting.
"Traditional mint houses relied heavily on quartation before modern electrolytic refining was invented."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from the Latin 'quartus' meaning 'fourth', via Middle French and 16th-century metallurgical terminology. Originally coined to describe the metallurgical process of alloying gold with three parts of silver to facilitate the separation of gold from silver using nitric acid.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Quartation" is said worldwide
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quartation
Transliteration: kwaʁ.ta.sjɔ̃
"La quartation est une étape essentielle dans l'affinage de l'or."
Quartation
Transliteration: kvaʁtaˈt͡si̯oːn
"Die Quartation wird bei der Scheidung von Gold und Silber angewendet."
quartazione
Transliteration: kwartatˈtsjone
"La quartazione è un antico processo metallurgico."
quartación
Transliteration: kwaɾtaˈsjon
"La quartación facilita la separación del oro y la plata."
quartação
Transliteration: kwartaˈsɐ̃w
"A quartação é utilizada na análise de ligas de ouro."
क्वारटेशन
Transliteration: kvārataṭēśana
Script: हिंदी देवनागरी
"क्वारटेशन सोने को शुद्ध करने की एक पुरानी विधि है।"
配银分金法
Transliteration: pèi yín fēn jīn fǎ
Script: 中文汉字
"配银分金法是一种古代冶金提纯工艺。"
쿼테이션
Transliteration: kwotetion
Script: 한국어 한글
"쿼테이션은 금을 정제하는 제련 공정 중 하나입니다."
合銀法
Transliteration: gōginhō
Script: 日本語
"合銀法は金と銀を分離するための古い冶金法です。"
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