Definitions for cupels

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cupels cu·pel

Spelling: [kyoo-puh l, kyoo-pel]

IPA: /ˈkyu pəl, kyuˈpɛl/

Cupels is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in cupels (celpsu).

Definitions for cupels

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)

1. to heat or refine in a cupel.

Origin of cupels

1595-1605; Medieval Latin cūpella, equivalent to Latin cūp(a) tub + -ella diminutive suffix

Examples for cupels

When this is done, the silver will be found in the bottom of the cupel.

The base metals oxydize and are absorbed with the lead into the pores of the cupel.

Afterward take the button, place it on a cupel, blow on it till it melts.

Money is to be the cupel of their worth, as it is of all other classes.

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.

It was observed that, in this case, a portion of the silver had passed into the cupel.

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.

Melt this button again in the scorifier and a third time in the cupel.