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Definition of Desilvering
1. desilver [v] - See also: desilver
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desilvering
Literary usage of Desilvering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Underground Life, Or, Mines and Miners by Louis Simonin, Henry William Bristow (1869)
"... desilvering process.— Table showing the minimum amount which metallic ores
should yield. THE ores, as they are extracted from the mine, always contain a ..."
2. Dangerous Trades: The Historical, Social, and Legal Aspects of Industrial by Thomas Oliver (1902)
"desilvering of lead ore is generally carried out by the Pattinson process, ...
Suffice it to say that the desilvering plant usually contains five pots made ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1876)
"... 466 ; magnesium, 466; effect of cold on metals, 466 ; science of alloys, 467;
new mode of toughening and refining gold, 467 ; desilvering lead by zinc, ..."
4. Lead Smelting and Refining: With Some Notes on Lead Mining by Walter Renton Ingalls (1906)
"The zinc-desilvering plant, Fig. 47, consists of a reverberatory softening furnace,
two desilvering kettles of 14 tons capacity, ..."
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