cupel

[Cu·pel]

A small porous bowl made of bone ash used in assaying to separate precious metals from e.g. lead

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A shallow porus cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime).

Noun
small porous bowl made of bone ash used in assaying to separate precious metals from e.g. lead

n.
A shallow porous cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime).

v. t.
To refine by means of a cupel.

Cupel

Cu"pel (k?"p?l), n. [LL. cupella cup (cf. L. cupella, small cask, dim. of cupa) : cf. F. coupelle. See Cup, and cf. Coblet.] A shallow porus cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime). [Written also coppel.] Cupel dust, powder used in purifying metals.

Cupel

Cu*pel" (k?-p?l"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cupelled (-p?ld"); p. pr. & vb. n. Cupelling.] To refine by means of a cupel.

A shallow porus cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime).

To refine by means of a cupel.

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