What does cupel mean?
Definitions for cupel
ˈkyu pəl, kyuˈpɛlcu·pel
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Princeton's WordNet
bone-ash cup, cupel, refractory potnoun
a small porous bowl made of bone ash used in assaying to separate precious metals from e.g. lead
Wiktionary
cupelnoun
A small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead.
Etymology: From French coupelle, mediaeval Latin cupella, diminutive of cupa ‘cask’.
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cupel
A cupel is a small, porous dish made of bone ash or other refractory material, used in assaying (the process of testing ores or metals for their gold or silver content) to absorb lead and other impurities while refined precious metals are isolated and collected as a fine layer that forms on the surface.
Webster Dictionary
Cupelnoun
a shallow porous cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime)
Cupelverb
to refine by means of a cupel
Etymology: [LL. cupella cup (cf. L. cupella, small cask, dim. of cupa) : cf. F. coupelle. See Cup, and cf. Coblet.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Cupel
kū′pel, n. a small vessel used by goldsmiths in assaying precious metals.—v.t. to assay in a cupel.—n. Cupellā′tion, the process of assaying precious metals. [L. cupella, dim. of cupa. See Cup.]
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of cupel in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of cupel in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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