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A mass of precious metal (usually in the form of bars or ingots)
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bullion
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Bullion is gold bars , silver bars, and other bars or ingots of precious metal . The word bullion comes from the French Minister of Finance under Louis XIII , Claude de Bullion . The value of bullion is typically determined by the value of its precious ...
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bullion \Bul"lion\ (b[.u]l"y[u^]n), n. [Cf. OE. bullyon a hook used for fastening the dress, a button, stud, an embossed ornament of various kinds, e. g., on the cover of a book, on bridles or poitrels, for purses, for breeches and doublets, LL. bullio ...
Usage examples of bullion.
Suppose the bullion being assayed varies only a little, up or down, from 900 gold and 100 copper in the thousand, and that .
These coins certainly have bullion value, at six hundred dollars an ounce.
With bullion the parts in a thousand are given, and in those cases in which the percentage is very small, as in water analysis, it is convenient to report on parts in 100,000, or even on parts per 1,000,000.
In attempting to apply the process to the assay of bullion by working it on the principle of a Gay-Lussac assay, it was found that a very considerable excess of silver was required to complete the reaction.
The buttons of bullion obtained are afterwards remelted with borax and run into bars, the fineness of which varies from 600 to 830 thousandths.
In places, such as Mints, where large numbers of bullion assays are regularly made a special form of cupel is used so that not less than six dozen assays may all be cupelled at the same time in a muffle of ordinary size.
The lead volatilised from a gold bullion assay would need to be ten times as rich as this to account for a loss of gold equal to the hundredth part of a milligram.
In gold bullion assays this proportion should be obtained with fair exactness.
How much sheet lead must be used will depend partly on how much bullion is taken, partly on how much copper it contains.
With a large number of bullion assays systematically worked and checked a simple plan would be to always use the quantity of lead required by the alloy containing most copper which turns up for assay.
This weight, cut out of lead foil, would be kept in stock folded into little bags ready to receive the bullion and silver.
In bullion assays the flatting of the buttons requires care and practice for its skilful working.
Mints and places where bullion assays must be made with the highest attainable accuracy, the surcharge is determined by experiment, and the proper correction is made in the reports on the bullion.
This is done by making assays of gold of the highest degree of purity alongside of those of the bullion whose quality has to be determined.
By sunset tomorrow the guns and the bullion would begin their secret journey.