Cupel is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 53 anagrams from letters in cupel (celpu).
1595-1605; Medieval Latin cūpella, equivalent to Latin cūp(a) tub + -ella diminutive suffix
The button that settles is transferred to the cupel and re-melted.
Unlike silver, gold will bear the highest heat of the furnace without vegetating, fuming, or being absorbed by the cupel.
Afterward take the button, place it on a cupel, blow on it till it melts.
When this is done, the silver will be found in the bottom of the cupel.
It was observed that, in this case, a portion of the silver had passed into the cupel.
Melt this button again in the scorifier and a third time in the cupel.
Money is to be the cupel of their worth, as it is of all other classes.
The base metals oxydize and are absorbed with the lead into the pores of the cupel.
Finally it is put into a cupel and the gold is separated from the lead.
That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom.