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cupeler

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cu⋅pel

  [kyoo-puhl, kyoo-pel] noun, verb, -peled, -pel⋅ing or (especially British) -pelled, -pel⋅ling.
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–noun
1. a small, cuplike, porous container, usually made of bone ash, used in assaying, as for separating gold and silver from lead.
2. a receptacle or furnace bottom in which silver is refined.
–verb (used with object)
3. to heat or refine in a cupel.
Origin:
1595–1605; < ML cūpella, equiv. to L cūp(a) tub + -ella dim. suffix

Related forms:
cu⋅pel⋅er  [kyoo-puh-ler] , cu⋅pel⋅ler  [kyoo-pel-er] , noun
cu⋅pel⋅la⋅tion, noun
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cu·pel   (kyōō'pəl, kyōō-pěl')   
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 or cu·pelled, cu·pel·ing or cu·pel·ling, cu·pels
To assay or separate from base metals in a cupel.

[French coupelle, from Old French, diminutive of coupe, cup, from Late Latin cuppa, drinking vessel.]
cu'pel·ler, cu'pel·er n.
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