Cupel

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A porous cup, often made of bone ash, used in assaying to separate precious metals from base elements such as lead.
  • n. The bottom or receptacle in a silver-refining furnace.
  • v. To assay or separate from base metals in a cupel.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead.
  • v. To refine by means of a cupel.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A shallow porous cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime).
  • v. To refine by means of a cupel.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In metallurgy, a small vessel made of pulverized bone-earth, in the form of a frustum of a cone, with a cavity in the larger end, in which lead containing gold and silver is cupeled. See cupellation.
  • To perform the process of cupellation upon.
  • n. The hearth of a cupellation furnace in which silver is separated from lead; a test. See test, 2.
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  • n. a small porous bowl made of bone ash used in assaying to separate precious metals from e.g. lead
    • Verb Form
    cupeled    cupeling    cupelled    cupelling    cupels   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    vessel   
    Variant
    cupelled    cupelling    coppel   
    Form
    cupelled    cupelling    cupellation   
     
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