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Quartation
Webster's Dictionary
(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.