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cupel

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Noun, Verb (usu participle)

HYPHEN

cu=pel

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun cupel has 1 sense

cupel(n = noun.artifact) bone-ash cup, refractory pot - a small porous bowl made of bone ash used in assaying to separate precious metals from e.g. lead; Array

is a kind of vessel

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CIDE DICTIONARY

cupel, n. [LL. cupella cup (cf. L. cupella, small cask, dim. of cupa) : cf. F. coupelle. See Cup, and cf. Coblet.].

A shallow porous cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime). [1913 Webster]

Cupel dust, powder used in purifying metals.

cupel, v. t.

To refine by means of a cupel. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

cupel, n. & v.
--n. a small flat porous vessel used in assaying gold or silver in the presence of lead.
--v.tr. (cupelled, cupelling; US cupeled, cupeling) assay or refine in a cupel.

Derivative

cupellation n.

Etymology

F coupelle f. LL cupella dimin. of cupa: see CUP

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