2. Verb. (third-person singular of assay) ¹
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Definition of Assays
1. assay [v] - See also: assay
Literary usage of Assays
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1914)
"TABLE II—assays of 22 Samples of a Small Bar of Standard Silver. 3 assays showed
899.1 "j 6 assays showed 899.3 6 assays showed 899.5 10 assays showed 899.6 ..."
2. Principles of Pharmacy by Henry Vinecome Arny (1917)
"CHAPTER LV assays OF ORGANIC SUBSTANCES PHARMACEUTIC ASSAYING ASIDE from the
volumetric estimation of organic acids described on p. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1856)
"OF THE ASSAY OF assays ought to occupy an important place in metallurgie ...
Not only ought the assays of the ores under treatment to be frequently repeated ..."
4. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1908)
"The price paid by mills, smelters, or sampling works for ores is fixed or controlled
by the result of assays run independently, by different assayers, ..."
5. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson. by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, Albert Ellery Bergh (1905)
"Report on assays at the Mint, communicated to the House of Representatives,
January 8, 1793. The Secretary of State, to whom was referred, by the President ..."
6. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson. by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, Albert Ellery Bergh (1905)
"Report on assays at the Mint, communicated to the House of Representatives,
January 8, 1793. The Secretary of State, to whom was referred, by the President ..."
7. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1844)
"Not only ought the assays of the ores under treatment to be frequently repeated,
because their nature is subject to vary; ..."
8. The Sampling and Estimation of Ore in a Mine by Thomas Arthur Rickard (1903)
"THE QUESTION OF "HIGH assays." In these calculations, whether they be mathematical
or rough-and-ready, it is assumed that where two adjoining samples vary ..."
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