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Water Gilding
Webster's Dictionary
The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; - called also wash gilding.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Water Gilding'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/w/water-gilding.html. 1828.