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Cupel   Listen
noun
Cupel  n.  (Written also coppel)  A shallow porous cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime).
Cupel dust, powder used in purifying metals.



verb
Cupel  v. t.  (past & past part. cupelled; pres. part. cupelling)  To refine by means of a cupel.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Cupel" Quotes from Famous Books



... treatment it gets, sir," he replied. "I usually bruise it in the mortar before cooking, without breaking up the fibre too much, and then I heat up the little cupel furnace to about 600 C, and put the steak in ...
— The Red Thumb Mark • R. Austin Freeman

... Copper in a due proportion, the Arsenick will Blanch the Copper both within and without, which is an Experiment well enough Known; but when I enquir'd, whether or no this White mixture being skilfully kept a while upon the Cupel would not let go its Arsenick, which made Whiteness its praedominant Colour, and return to the Reddishness of Copper, I was assur'd of the Affirmative; so that among Mineral Bodyes, some of those that are White, may be far more capable, than those I am reasoning with seem to have known, ...
— Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664) • Robert Boyle



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