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Cupel

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Noun

1. bone-ash cup, cupel, refractory pot

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

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Cupel

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noun
1. 
a refractory pot in which gold or silver is refined
2. 
a small porous bowl made of bone ash in which gold and silver are recovered from a lead button during assaying
verb -pels, -pelling, -pelled or US -pels, -peling or -peled
3. (transitive)
to refine (gold or silver) by means of cupellation

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Cupel

see synonyms of cupel
noun
1. 
a small, shallow, porous cup used in assaying gold, silver, etc.
2. 
a hearth for refining metals
verb transitiveWord forms: ˈcupeled or ˈcupelled, ˈcupeling
3. 
to assay or refine in a cupel

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Cupel

see synonyms of cupel
n.
1. A porous cup, often made of bone ash, used in assaying to separate precious metals from base elements such as lead.
2. The bottom or receptacle in a silver-refining furnace.
tr.v. cu·peled, cu·pel·ing, cu·pels or cu·pelled or cu·pel·ling
To assay or separate from base metals in a cupel.

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