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▸ noun: (chemistry, archaic) 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.
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▸ noun: (chemistry, archaic) 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.
Similar:
parting,
aliquotation,
liquation,
barrel process,
aurification,
speltering,
trituration,
mercurification,
cazo process,
transmutation,
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