Ĕl'i-quā'tion, n.

n. [Lat. eliquatio, from eliquare, to liquefy, to melt out, from e, out, and liquare, to make liquid, to melt.] (Metallurgy.) The operation by which a more fusible substance is separated from one that is less so, by means of a degree of heat sufficient to melt the one and not the other, as an alloy of copper and lead. Ore.