quartation
/kwɒ:'teiʃәn/
📖 中文释义
- n. 析银法
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- n. 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; -- called also inquartation. Compare Parting.