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Noun: refractory pot
  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 refractory pot";
    - bone-ash cup, cupel

Derived forms: refractory pots

Type of: vessel