Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Eliquation

Eliquation , noun

[Latin eliquatio, from eliquare to clarify, strain; e + liquare to make liquid, melt.]

(Metallurgy) The process of separating a fusible substance from one less fusible, by means of a degree of heat sufficient to melt the one and not the other, as an alloy of copper and lead; liquation. — Ure