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Gold or silver in bars or ingots
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bullion
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Bullion is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Angélique Bullion , French benefactress influential in the foundation of Quebec Laura Bullion (1876 – 1961), American female outlaw of the Old West Stéphane Bullion (born 1980), French Etoile ...
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n. 1 A bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots. 2 (context obsolete English) base or uncurrent coin 3 (context obsolete English) showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE gold ▪ That means gold lace, two epaulettes with gold bullion on each and blue cushions. ▪ Bribes have to be paid, often in gold bullion . ▪ The blue silk mortar board she wore was edged in gold lace with a gold ...
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.