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liquate
[ lahy-kweyt ]
verb (used with object)
- to heat (an alloy or mixture) sufficiently to melt the more fusible matter and thus to separate it from the rest, as in the refining of tin.
verb (used without object)
- to become separated by such a fusion (often followed by out ).
liquate
/ ˈ±ô²¹Éª°ì·É±ðɪ³Ù /
verb
- troften foll byout to separate one component of (an alloy, impure metal, or ore) by heating so that the more fusible part melts
Derived Forms
- ±ô¾±Ëˆ±ç³Ü²¹³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô, noun
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ±ô¾±Â·±ç³Ü²¹Â·³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô [lahy-, kwey, -sh, uh, n, -zh, uh, n], noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of liquate1
Example Sentences
Your fiancé is correct in refusing to liquate his savings account to pay his student loans.
Liquate, lik′wÄt, v.t. to melt: to separate one metal from another which is less fusible, by applying sufficient heat.—adj.
The lead which these cakes liquate, when they are melted in the furnace, weighs about nine centumpondia, in each centumpondium of which there is a quarter of a libra and more than a sicilicus of silver; and seven unciae of silver remain in the exhausted liquation cakes and in the liquation thorns.
The fundamental principle of the process is that if a copper-lead alloy, containing a large excess of lead, be heated in a reducing atmosphere, above the melting point of lead but below that of copper, the lead will liquate out and carry with it a large proportion of the silver.
However, notwithstanding the use of cupro-manganese, the tin, as in ordinary bronzes, has a tendency to liquate in those portions of the mould which are the hottest, and which become solid the last, especially in the case of moulds having a great width.
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