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Noun: cupel  kyoo-pul
  1. A small porous bowl made of bone ash used in assaying to separate precious metals from e.g. lead
    "The assayer carefully poured the molten metal into the cupel";
    - bone-ash cup, refractory pot

Derived forms: cupeled, cupeling, cupels

Type of: vessel

Encyclopedia: Cupel, Legionowo County