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Definition of Desilvered
1. desilver [v] - See also: desilver
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desilvered
Literary usage of Desilvered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes of a Metallurgical Journey in Europe by John Adams Church (1873)
"The products are : Lead, which goes to the lead treatment, desilvered ...
Fusion for hard lead: -This desilvered abstrich is charged iix a shaft furnace, ..."
2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events (1869)
"Extracting Silver from Lead by HM&—The essential conditions under which Utad can
be completely desilvered by the small- pt quantity of zinc, ..."
3. Modern Pigments and Their Vehicles: Their Properties and Uses Considered by Frederick Maire (1907)
"The largest in the world is located in Newark, NJ, where metallic lead is desilvered
at low cost, the silver obtained usually paying the cost'of processing ..."
4. Notes of a Metallurgical Journey in Europe by John Adams Church (1873)
"Fusion for hard lead : — This desilvered abstrich is charged in a shaft furnace,
the charge being as follows : • Charge : — 100 ..."
5. Aid Book to Engineering Enterprise by Ewing Matheson (1898)
"Much of the British lead was not desilvered, the proportion of silver being small,
the lead in other respects being purer than most of the foreign lead. ..."
6. Transactions by American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Metallurgical Society of AIME, Society of Mining Engineers of AIME., Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (U.S.). (1913)
"The desilvered lead was refined at a high heat in a reverberatory built of fire-brick.
Impure lead-bullion was first softened in a reverberatory furnace ..."
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