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assayIn chemistry, the determination of the quantity of a given substance present in a sample. Usually it refers to determining the purity of precious metals. In biochemistry, it refers to quantitative measurements, for example of enzyme activity. The assay may be carried out by ‘wet’ methods, when the sample is wholly or partially dissolved in some reagent (often an acid), or by ‘dry’ or ‘fire’ methods, in which the compounds present in the sample are combined with other substances. |
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| In May Frobisher set out on his third and final voyage, with fifteen ships and two hundred miners, in which Sidney invested [pounds]67/10/-; during this trip, the assayers pronounced the ore worthless. There she and her two teenage children greeted the trail-weary prospectors, hunters, and pioneer mothers and children as well as merchants, assayers, and preachers, freshened them up, and sent them on their last dash to town. During the audit, three independent geologists and two assayers conducted four geological reviews and full custodial assays on all its properties, although only the Skull Valley property was verified for the purpose of the audit. |
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