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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(chemistry, archaic) 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..
Use quartation when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Quartation means (chemistry, archaic) 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..
Common synonyms include inquartation.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Use quartation where its definition matches the intended context.
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