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Assaying   Listen
noun
Assaying  n.  The act or process of testing, esp. of analyzing or examining metals and ores, to determine the proportion of pure metal.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Assaying" Quotes from Famous Books



... don't know a good book when they see it. It is a matter of sheer heedlessness in the selection of what they intend to publish. A big drug factory or a manufacturer of a well-known jam spends vast sums of money on chemically assaying and analyzing the ingredients that are to go into his medicines or in gathering and selecting the fruit that is to be stewed into jam. And yet they tell me that the most important department of a publishing ...
— The Haunted Bookshop • Christopher Morley

... ordinary lives. He had always been interested in chemical experiments. He had studied the qualities of metals. In August, 1602, Carew mentioned to Cecil that he had been sending over to Ralegh from Munster 'many sorts of ore' to prove. Within his Tower garden he equipped an assaying furnace. Cecil occasionally visited it and him to inquire about the results. He is supposed to have written a Treatise of Mines and the Trial of Minerals. It has been thought he was associated with Sir Adrian Gilbert in working during Elizabeth's reign the ancient and ...
— Sir Walter Ralegh - A Biography • William Stebbing



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