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单词 affination
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affinationn.

Brit. /ˌafᵻˈneɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌæfəˈneɪʃ(ə)n/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: affine v., -ation suffix.
Etymology: < affine v. + -ation suffix. Compare German Affination action or process of refining (in various senses, but chiefly with reference to metals) (beginning of the 19th cent.). With sense 1 compare earlier affinage n. 1.
1. Metallurgy. The process of refining (precious) metal, esp. by treatment with hot concentrated sulphuric acid.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > refining > methods of
calcinationc1386
calciningc1386
liquation1471
fulmination1617
cupelling1644
decrepitating1662
decrepitation1669
fulguration1676
concentration1689
cupellationa1691
scorification1755
affination1851
thermite process1905
zone melting1952
zone refining1952
zone levelling1953
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. V. 1356/2 Double-acting air-pump, with single cylinder. Scales for chemical analysis; for precious metals; and for affination.
1956 J. S. Anderson tr. H. Remy Treat. Inorg. Chem. II. 394 The term affination is applied to the purification of silver by treatment with hot concentrated sulfuric acid.
1997 H. Renner in F. Habashi Handbk. Extractive Metall. III. xxiii. 1197/2 Hot concentrated sulfuric acid can be used (affination).
2004 Ukraine Business Weekly (Nexis) 26 Oct. Ukrainian enterprises are not certified according to international standards of precious metal affination used by the London Association of Precious Metals Market.
2. The initial process in the refining of sugar whereby raw sugar crystals are treated with a warm syrup to remove the thin layer of molasses. Frequently attributive.
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1893 Sugar Cane 1 Sept. 474 It is capable of producing the white article direct from raw sugars, especially such as are unsuitable for preliminary refining (so-called affination) without the use of bone-black.
1941 J. G. Glover & W. B. Cornell Developm. Amer. Industries xiv. 303 The first step in the refining process, called ‘affination’, is a washing process which separates the mother liquor surrounding the crystals of raw sugar.
1962 Managem. Technol. 2 119 The quantity of affination green syrup spun off from the raw sugar crystals.
1995 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 7 Feb. 47 CSR will expand its Plane Creek mill by constructing a $15 million continuous affination plant to produce white raw sugar.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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