quartation (English, noun)
expansion: quartation (usually uncountable, plural quartations)
Senses:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: 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.
tags: archaic
uncountable
usually
Forms:
form: quartations
tags: plural