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Fineness vs Quartation - What's the difference?

fineness | quartation |

As nouns the difference between fineness and quartation

is that fineness is the ratio, in a precious metal, of the primary metal to any additives or impurities while quartation is (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.

fineness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The ratio, in a precious metal, of the primary metal to any additives or impurities.
  • The ratio of a ship's length to her beam.

    • quartation

    English

    Noun

    (en-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.

    • Synonyms

    * inquartation