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Cupel   Listen
verb
Cupel  v. t.  (past & past part. cupelled; pres. part. cupelling)  To refine by means of a cupel.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Cupel" Quotes from Famous Books



... Copper in a due proportion, the Arsenick will Blanch the Copper both within and without, which is an Experiment well enough Known; but when I enquir'd, whether or no this White mixture being skilfully kept a while upon the Cupel would not let go its Arsenick, which made Whiteness its praedominant Colour, and return to the Reddishness of Copper, I was assur'd of the Affirmative; so that among Mineral Bodyes, some of those that are White, may be far ...
— Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664) • Robert Boyle



Words linked to "Cupel" :   vessel, refractory pot, bone-ash cup



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