quartation

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. archaic,uncountable,usually

词形变化

quartations plural

词源

Latin quartus, "fourth", because usually enough silver is added to make the amount of gold in the alloyed button about one fourth.
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