After the introduction of gunpowder from China during the Mongol conquests in the 1200s and the independent development of large cannon in Europe, the growing demand for copper for the manufacture of bronze cannon in the fifteenth century was a stimulus for advances such as the "liquation" process, used in ores containing silver to separate it from copper. From Wordnik.com. [The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe] Reference
The metal itself is easily fusible, and may be separated from its ores by liquation. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.] Reference
Sulphide of antimony is separated from the ore by liquation; this regulus is met with in commerce as "crude antimony.". From Wordnik.com. [A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.] Reference
This is hard to conceive; yet can I make good how even that may prey upon our bodies, and yet not consume us: for in this material World there are bodies that persist invincible in the powerfullest flames; and though by the action of fire they fall into ignition and liquation, yet will they never suffer a destruction. From Wordnik.com. [Religio Medici] Reference
This is hard to conceive, yet can I make good how even that may prey upon our bodies, and yet not consume us: for in this material world, there are bodies that persist invincible in the powerfulest flames; and though, by the action of fire, they fall into ignition and liquation, yet will they never suffer a destruction. From Wordnik.com. [Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend] Reference
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