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(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.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Quartation'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​q/quartation.html. 1828.
 
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