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Definition of quartation in English English dictionary
- {n} the process or refining a metal by mixing one fourth with three fourths of another metal
- 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
- inquartation