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Definition of Levigations
1. levigation [n] - See also: levigation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Levigations
Literary usage of Levigations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1882)
"For this purpose the mass is pounded, and the products are separated one after
another by successive levigations with water. The clay, which is extremely ..."
2. The Painter, Gilder, and Varnisher's Companion: Containing Rules and (1867)
"... and the liquid being poured from the powder, this is to be washed clean off
the crystals by repeated levigations. The choice of these powders is, ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1876)
"... levigations, and subsidences. It may take a long time to prepare, but the
author knows it can be made. Ph. Jour. Trans., Nov. 14th, 1874, p. 381. ..."
4. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1899)
"By repeated levigations a great part, though not the whole, of the sand can be
removed. For this reason we preferred to analyse the material as it was, ..."
5. The Use of the Blowpipe in the Qualitative and Quantitative Examination of by Karl Friedrich Plattner (1854)
"... and ground to a fine powder. If there be any metal, from its greater specific
gravity, it falls immediately to the bottom. Repeated levigations and ..."
6. Economic Geology; Or, Geology in Its Relations to the Arts and Manufactures by David Page (1874)
"... though, generally speaking, they have to be subjected to repeated levigations
to free them from particles of quartz, mica, undecomposed felspar, ..."
7. Economic Geology; Or, Geology in Its Relations to the Arts and Manufactures by David Page (1874)
"... though, generally speaking, they have to be subjected to repeated levigations
to free them from particles of quartz, mica, undecomposed felspar, ..."
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