A process or treatment involving whitening or bleaching, or the chemical action that produces a white color.
From Latin albus (white) plus the suffix -ation, which creates nouns describing processes or results. The term appears in older scientific and technical texts describing chemical treatments.
The -ation suffix is so productive in English that we can almost understand brand-new scientific terms just by recognizing the pattern—activation, oxidation, albation all follow the same 'process' formula!
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