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Deliquation vs Eliquation - What's the difference?

deliquation | eliquation |

As nouns the difference between deliquation and eliquation

is that deliquation is (obsolete) an act of melting while eliquation is (metallurgy) the process of separating a fusible substance from one less fusible, by means of a degree of heat sufficient to melt the one and not the other, as an alloy of copper and lead; liquation.

deliquation

English

Noun

  • (obsolete) An act of melting.
    • (Webster 1913)

    eliquation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (metallurgy) The process of separating a fusible substance from one less fusible, by means of a degree of heat sufficient to melt the one and not the other, as an alloy of copper and lead; liquation.
  • *1904 , Johannes Rudolf Wagner, Manual of Chemical Technology , page 183:
    • Simultaneously with the desilvering, goes on the eliquation' of the rich scum in the first, and afterwards in the second, ' eliquation pan.
    (Webster 1913)